Cinema Quotes

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War is cinema, and cinema is war — Paul Virilio
Iâ€™m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it,… — Federico Fellini
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on… — Federico Fellini
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The… — Federico Fellini
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a… — Michael Haneke
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or… — David O. Russell
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. — Abbas Kiarostami
To the question, â€˜Is the cinema an art?â€™ my answer is, â€˜what does it matter?â€™... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden.… — Jean Renoir
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called… — Jean Renoir
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema. — Jean Renoir
Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited… — Terry Gilliam
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they donâ€™t care about my cinema. In Europe they donâ€™t know my poetry; in Europe, I… — Jonas Mekas
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with… — Maya Deren
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, itâ€™s a gay film. . . .Â I think thatâ€™s really… — Todd Haynes
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. — Roberto Benigni
I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you donâ€™t have good images, itâ€™s not going to be a… — Vilmos Zsigmond
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in… — Ivor Novello
When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening.… — Sergio Leone
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite. — Sergio Leone

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