Cinema Quote by Karthik Subbaraj

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which…

— Todd Haynes

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

— Ken Loach

Theater is a wonderful medium - I love theater myself, and there are exceptions to every rule - but the thing that motion pictures…

— Vince Gilligan

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

— Alan Rudolph

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

Cinema must be useful to society. It must discuss both the pitfalls of society, as also ways to take it forward.

— Samuthirakani

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining…

— Mani Ratnam

At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Cinema by itself is a language.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage, you’ve had…

— Peter Glenville