Cinema Quotes

642 quotes by 411 authors

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in… — Derek Jarman
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the… — Brenda Blethyn
I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another… — Simon McBurney
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection… — Christopher Dawson
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. — Serge Daney
A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema. — Serge Daney
Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument… — Serge Daney
I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman,… — Hayao Miyazaki
The whole point of art, as far as Iâ€™m concerned, is that art doesnâ€™t make any difference. And thatâ€™s why itâ€™s important. Take film: you… — Brian Eno
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular… — Samuel L. Jackson
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
There are cinÃ©philes and cinÃ©phages. Truffaut is a cinÃ©phile. A cinÃ©phage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the… — Henri Langlois
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The… — Henri Langlois
A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either… — Ginette Paris
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and… — Peter Greenaway
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances… — Peter Greenaway
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas… — Peter Greenaway
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema… — Peter Greenaway
I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking.… — Peter Greenaway
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely… — Peter Greenaway

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