Cinema Quotes - Page 4

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

The essence of cinema is editing.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.