Cinema Quote by David Thomson Download Open image ““Why is it dark in cinemas? So that the compulsive force of our involvement may be hidden.”” — David Thomson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema
“The mind is a theater. It cannot be allowed to go dark. It must be maintained.” — john connolly Copy Share Image
“When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“What greater contrast of chiaroscuro is there than that between burning screen and darkened audience? Take any photograph of an intent audience, and it… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“A film can be undermined by the person you’re seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I never thought myself as being afraid of the dark, but murder put dark in a whole new perspective.” — Karin Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark… — Penny Matthews Copy Share Image
“The only real danger is flinching, seeming to notice your own nakedness. If you don’t flinch, you’re merely nude, which is a classically recognized… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse - it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love,… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“What greater contrast of chiaroscuro is there than that between burning screen and darkened audience? Take any photograph of an intent audience, and it… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“Agee wrote “like someone who had not just viewed the movie but been in it — out with it, as if it were a… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King’s X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping up rubbish… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“Why was Simpson called "OJ" except in some kind of branding or headlinese that said, "Look, this guy is sweet, wholseome, and nourishing (and… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
“But film sometimes flinches at the expertise of actresses, and the sympathetic viewer may come to realize that there was a mute honesty in… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image