Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house…

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've…

— Quentin Tarantino

I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt…

— Alex Gibney

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in…

— Aaron Eckhart

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in…

— Asrani

I have my own ideas when it comes to making cinema. My films should be of my liking and suit my convictions.

— Govinda

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as…

— Andrew Haigh

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

— Andrew Haigh

I like animated films, but not necessarily the characters.

— Jin

I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why I'm an…

— Julie Gayet

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

— Sergio Leone

At university I became really interested in the history of cinema. It combined true life and all the arts that I loved. That prompted…

— Alice Rohrwacher

To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh,…

— Jonas Mekas

There is no such thing as art cinema, there is only cinema.

— Joy Mathew