Cinema Quotes

642 quotes by 411 authors

I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works… — Peter Greenaway
My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby… — Peter Greenaway
I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than… — Peter Greenaway
I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway
I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. — Peter Greenaway
Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone. — Peter Greenaway
Cinema has reached a dead end. — Peter Greenaway
Cinema is dead, long live cinema. — Peter Greenaway
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to… — Peter Greenaway
Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make… — Wesley Morris
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema… — Martin Scorsese
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream… — Angela Carter
Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. — Francis Ford Coppola
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. Thatâ€™s what I love about cinema. It changes in the… — Ira Sachs
Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds… — Kevin Spacey
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas. — Siobhan Fahey
For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about Indian cinema.… — Vir Das
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it… — Wim Wenders
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles â€¦ it's a small percentage. — Steven Zaillian

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