Cinema Quotes

642 quotes by 403 authors

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But… — Akira Kurosawa
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a… — Adolf Hitler
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite — Crispin Glover
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig
Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are… — Joshua Leonard
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that… — Manuel Puig
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. — Antoine Fuqua
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. — Pedro Almodovar
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality… — Pedro Almodovar
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the… — Sergei Eisenstein
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas… — Sergei Eisenstein
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. — Jacques Audiard
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. — Jacques Audiard
The cinema that interests me departs from realism. — Jacques Audiard
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing.… — Jacques Audiard
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in… — Jacques Audiard
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. — Rose Tremain
I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures… — Myrna Loy
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we… — Banksy
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called… — Roger Ebert

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