Cinema Quotes

642 quotes by 403 authors

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way… — Lars von Trier
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… — Alexander Payne
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions… — Werner Herzog
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
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… — Abbas Kiarostami
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort… — Jason Silva
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,… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert
If you donâ€™t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just donâ€™t like cinema. — Martin Scorsese
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives… — Jean-Luc Godard
I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or… — Nicolas Winding Refn
American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I donâ€™t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented… — Manohla Dargis
Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything. — Vincent Cassel
In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not… — Jean Reno
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth. — Werner Herzog
Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad… — Joan Collins
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do… — Ice T
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week. — Irrfan Khan
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema. — Irrfan Khan

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