Cinema Quotes - Page 18

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own.

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

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see the world. This is how I see cinema. And you have to be able to talk about that and explain it and be responsible.

We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.

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

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.