Cinema Quotes - Page 10

I am really not interested in the cinema.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

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

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

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

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)

If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!

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.