Allegory Quote by Guy Maddin

I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like…

— Mike Leigh

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

— Mark Poster

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so…

— Isabelle Huppert

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

— Nick Cassavetes

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

— Adam Wingard

Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and…

— Rob Nilsson

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

— James Spader

The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own fears, desires,…

— Sebastian Lelio

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of…

— Manuel Puig

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

— Taika Waititi

Movies are different from real life.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

— Nicolas Roeg