Theater is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.

The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between…

— Priyanka Chopra

Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define what constitutes…

— Shabana Azmi

I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from…

— Lea Seydoux

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie…

— Denis Villeneuve

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

— Woody Allen

Cinema, art and culture should definitely be shared. These things transcend borders.

— Farah Khan

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent languishing for…

— Paresh Rawal

Cinema is an art form.

— Anurag Kashyap

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

— Judith Crist

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

— Jean-Luc Godard

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a…

— Jean Renoir

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment…

— Maya Deren

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole…

— Jacques Audiard