Bounds Quote by Johan Huizinga

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

— Brit Marling

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of…

— Sally Potter

When we watch a film as actors, you have to understand that we always see much more than what's on screen.

— Kunal Khemu

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an…

— Serge Daney

For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a…

— Peter Greenaway

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom.…

— Shekhar Kapur

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

— Hugo Weaving

To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly…

— Nagisa Oshima

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment…

— Maya Deren

When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind…

— Jerry Lewis