Cinema Quotes - Page 3

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Is the cinema more important than life?

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.