Cinema Quotes - Page 5

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Cinema is an art form.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.