Absorption Quote by Nathaniel Dorsky

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of…

— Walter Benjamin

Films, they allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They fill us…

— Anonymous

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why…

— Brett Ratner

We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that…

— Masha Tupitsyn

While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the…

— Sidney Lumet

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that…

— Akira Kurosawa

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are watching a…

— Jay Neugeboren

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it…

— Wesley Morris

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality,…

— John Boyega

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

— J. C. Chandor