Quotes and Sayings About Cinema

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
-- A. O. Scott

#Democracy #Campaigns #Cinema

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#People #Lazy #Cinema

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Believe #Cinema

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Kids #Cinema

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Taken #Cinema #Puzzles

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
-- Agnes Varda

#Movie #Forever #Cinema

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Grace #India #Cinema

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Theatre #Together #Cinema

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
-- Alain Badiou

#Art #Cinema

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Drug #Cinema #Psychedelic

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Reality #Hollywood #Cinema

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
-- Alexander Payne

#Trying #Hollywood #Cinema

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
-- Alexander Payne

#Cartoon #Cinema #World

The best cinema is about ethics.
-- Alexander Payne

#Cinema #Ethics

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Movie #Cake #Cinema

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
-- Ali Suliman

#Dirty #Political #Cinema

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Believe #Ideas #Cinema

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#People #Groups #Cinema

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
-- Andre Bazin

#Cinema #Genre #Western

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Numbers #People #Cinema

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Art #Feelings #Cinema

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Cinema #World #Persons

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Emotional #Perception #Cinema

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Doe #Cinema #World

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Adults #Cinema #Our Society

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
-- Andrzej Wajda

#Cinema #Film #Made

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.
-- Andy Lau

#Rocks #Cinema #World

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.
-- Andy Serkis

#Men #Cinema #Digital

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Thinking #Cinema #Actors

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
-- Anthony Minghella

#Children #Cinema #Film