Cinematic Quotes:

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

- Emma Watson

topic: Crush, Kevin, Cinematic

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

- Martin Scorsese

source: FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

topic: Movie, Gambling, Cinema, Directing Film, Movie Director

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

- Peter Benchley

source: "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Movie, Needs, Best Film, Improvising

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

- Noah Baumbach

topic: Thinking, Notion, Cinematic

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

- Steve Buscemi

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Humorous, Mean, Profound, Junk Mail, Cinematic

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

- Jean-Pierre Melville

topic: Believe, Needs, Cinema, Madly In Love, Cinematic

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

- Julie Taymor

topic: Technique, Use, Way, Cinematic

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

- Pedro Almodovar

topic: Movie, Writing, Editing, Film Directors, Cinematic

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.

- Quentin Tarantino

topic: Motivational, Movie, Artist, Movie Director, Cinematic

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

topic: Movie, Dream, People, Film Directors, Cinematic

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Inspirational, Enemy, Classic, Memorable Movie, Institute

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

- Kathryn Bigelow

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Movie, Inspiring, Two, Directing Movies, Film Directors

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

- Bram Stoker

source: Dracula ch. 2 (1897)

topic: Children, Halloween, Night, Movie Actors, Movies And Music

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Winston Groom

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Life, Motivational, Movie, Favorite Book, 80s And 90s

A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Joseph Stefano

source: "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

topic: Mom, Mother, Boys, Mother Son, Best Film

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

- Ralph Lauren

topic: Views, Clothes, Creating, Cinematic

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

- David Fincher

topic: Psychology, Cameras, Actors, Cinematic

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Book, Animal, Perspective, Different Animals, Cinematic

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

- Akira Kurosawa

topic: Real, Fire, Expression, Cinematic, Film Directing

Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Stars, War, Vision, Cinematic

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

- Nicholas Royle

topic: Writing, Style, Trying, Cinematic

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

- Akira Kurosawa

topic: Believe, Moving, People, Deep Emotions, Cinematic

Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

- Steve Lawson

topic: Beautiful, Journey, Guitar, Percussion, Cinematic

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

- Zack Snyder

topic: Thinking, Superhero, Important, Cinematic

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

- Adam Baldwin

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

topic: Hero, Men, Guy, Cinematic

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

- Dave Gahan

source: "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

topic: Space, Feelings, Singing, Cinematic, Sound Of Music

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

- Ryan Coogler

topic: Art, Impact, Mind, Cinematic

The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

- Steve Coogan

topic: Sex, Real, Shy, Cinematic

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

- Jeffrey Wright

topic: Movie, Reason, Concern, Cinematic

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

- Christine Baranski

topic: Arabia, Lawrence Of Arabia, Ultimate, Cinematic

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

- Matthew Rhys

topic: Thinking, Way, Television, Cinematic

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

- Mike Leigh

topic: Thinking, Film, Sophisticated, Cinematic

I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: War, Sadness, Avid, Cinematic

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

- Jonas Mekas

source: Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.7, Columbia University Press

topic: Frozen, Way, Break, Cinematic

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

- Lana Del Rey

topic: Song, Eras, Lifestyle, Cinematic

Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

- Manny Farber

topic: Art, Light, Directors, It's A Wonderful Life, Cinematic

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

- Jessica Hagedorn

topic: Writing, Thinking, Dialogue, Writing Dialogue, Cinematic

Kill Bill is one of my favorite movies. It has this gritty feeling to it, and it's got a little bit of everything - a little bit of western, a little bit of samurai, and a lot of this very cinematic violence that I personally think is very entertaining.

- Tove Styrke

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Samurai, Kill Bill, Cinematic

I'm not going to say that the other people I worked with weren't artist. They were all very great, very talented people, but I think Guillermo [del Toro] will go down in cinematic history as one of our more talented, visually brilliant directors.

- Charlie Day

topic: Artist, Thinking, People, Cinematic

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

- Jonathan Demme

topic: Acting, Cinema, Shooting, Cinematic, Artifice

My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.

- Peter Greenaway

topic: Hero, People, Would Be, Cinematic

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

- Nora Ephron

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Moments, Cinematic

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

- Kathryn Bigelow

source: "'I like to be strong'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2002.

topic: Art, New York, Exercise, Cinematic, Art World

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

- Kathryn Bigelow

topic: Thinking, Seductive, Way, Cinematic

The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

- Jen Lancaster

topic: Believe, Night, Two, Cinematic, Impulsive

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Details, Helping, Adaptation, Cinematic

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

- Donnie Yen

topic: Art, Team, Cameras, Cinematic, Choreography