Cinema Quote by Martin Scorsese

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds,…

— Barry Levinson

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

— Lina Wertmuller

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

— Terry Zwigoff

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or…

— Milos Forman

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the…

— Rachel McAdams

“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a…

— Pauline Kael

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

— Errol Morris

You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they…

— John Leguizamo

One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some…

— Joachim Trier

One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's participation in…

— RaMell Ross

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with…

— Conrad Hall

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to…

— Jennifer Lee