Cinema Quote by Roland Barthes

“Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for the audience…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“A film is -or should be- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's…

— Stanley Kubrick

“[on his satisfaction as an artist] In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you.…

— Michael Haneke

“Film is a great tool to play with human emotions & thoughts.”

— Maria Tusar

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving…

— Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a reflection of reality. But you will feel things that you want to Existentially.”

— Pradeesh

When you make a film, you come to say something.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

“Music is the final piece of filmmaking—the essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

— Artie Kane

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”

— Slavoj Žižek

“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

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are…

— Julia Loktev