Certain Quote by Manuel Puig

“There was a time when I thought that film, unlike other art forms (being the most democratic of them all) had a total effect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

— Jeanne Moreau

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring…

— Robert Towne

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston

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

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television)

— Billy Wilder

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

— Florence Pugh

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make…

— John Lasseter

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

— Nicolas Roeg