Cinema Quotes

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Be smart, but never show it.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

Big things have small beginnings.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.