Cases Quote by Werner Herzog

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

— Meryl Streep

It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in…

— Werner Herzog

Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the…

— Ingmar Bergman

I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily…

— Daniel Clowes

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

— Debbie Reynolds

Cinema felt like a fantasy. It was like watching dreams unfold on the screen before me.

— Dileesh Pothan

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

— Olga Kurylenko

From such a young age, I was raised and have raised myself on film to such an extent, that it has sometimes bled into…

— Emma Forrest

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised,…

— Paul Greengrass

No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down…

— Ingmar Bergman

Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they want something…

— Jim Jarmusch

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

— Christopher Nolan