Cinema Quote by Jeremy Renner

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be…

— Jeremy Renner

Cinema is about transferring thought into action.

— Rajiv Menon

Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most…

— Walter Koenig

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

— Amitabh Bachchan

I strongly believe film should create conversations around themes we are grappling with as a society.

— Stacy Martin

Our films have to entertain without the viewer being guided to a humdrum set of do's and don't's. At the same time, as a…

— Vivek Agnihotri

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

— Gus Van Sant

You know, I feel like when we're watching films, typically, the films do the thinking for you, one could say.

— RaMell Ross

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

— Sebastian Lelio

At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I really believe in the power of cinema, and with it comes a responsibility to impart some sort of message for the better.

— Michael Gracey

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES…

— Andrei Tarkovsky