Cinema Quotes - Page 9

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.