Allegory Quote by Manuel Puig

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a…

— Michael Haneke

Cinema is like dream.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

— Nadine Labaki

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is…

— Walter Murch

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

— Amitabh Bachchan

Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became…

— Jason Silva

Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

— Djibril Diop Mambety

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily…

— Pedro Almodovar

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

— Joe Rogan

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you…

— Joshua Leonard

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

— James Mangold

Cinema is a world of imagination.

— Marjane Satrapi