Cinema Quotes

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

I love cinema.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The best cinema is about ethics.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.