Cinema Quote by John Grierson Download Open image “I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.” — John Grierson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Looks Propagandist Pulpit Use
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I don't want to act in a preachy movie just because that is more sensible. I don't watch that kind of cinema. — Tamannaah Copy Share Image
Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema. — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Since I am an actress and not a social activist, cinema is the best medium for me to state my views. — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a… — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
My style of cinema is different and I always look at my films as the audience would. — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.' That way,… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and… — John Grierson 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
