Cinema Quotes - Page 14

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.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

I just really hope that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema can resolve all their differences. I'm hoping that's going to happen, but we'd have to wait and see. I would love to explore Middle Earth again with Peter.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

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

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

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.