Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.
I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.
When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement
I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.
When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.
I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
