Cinema Quotes

642 quotes by 403 authors

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what… — Peter Greenaway
Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think… — Henry Hopper
I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work… — Dhani Harrison
Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that. — Freddie Highmore
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. — Tom Hooper
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time. — Abbas Kiarostami
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. — Roland Joffe
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas… — Alex Kapranos
Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15… — Emir Kusturica
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again. — Baz Luhrmann
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may… — Baz Luhrmann
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with… — Jonas Mekas
To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or… — Marjane Satrapi
The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so. — Ken Adam
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. — Michael Winterbottom
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide. — Thomas Langmann
I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love,… — Thomas Langmann
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's… — Thomas Langmann
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. — J.H. Wyman

Who Wrote These Cinema Quotes

403 authors contributed a total of 642 Cinema Quotes, led by these top contributors: