Cinema Quote by David Livingstone Smith

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to…

— LeBron James

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil;…

— Stephen Hunter

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

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…

— Baz Luhrmann

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

— Bong Joon-ho

I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

— Stanley Ralph Ross

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

— Alexandre Desplat

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I…

— Larry King

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

— Peter Jackson

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people…

— Ron Fournier