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Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema. — Dawn Garcia

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there. — Salman Rushdie

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ... — J. Michael Straczynski

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon. — Eddie Redmayne

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance. — Jerry White

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. — David Lynch

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. — Jim Morrison

Most horror movies are certainly that. — Brendan Behan

Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons. — Malti Bhojwani

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people. — Ivan Sutherland

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema. — Kiefer Sutherland

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world. — Alexander Payne

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema." — Jonas Mekas

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. — Abbas Kiarostami

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me. — Orson Welles

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that. — Sunny Deol

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing. — Max Tundra

In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films. — Marshall Curry

America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema. — Tom Hiddleston

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem. — Nick Willing

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. — Agnes Repplier

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so. — Ken Adam

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge. — Jim Sturgess

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life. — Danny Boyle

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals. — Anurag Kashyap

I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Cinema is dead, long live cinema. — Peter Greenaway

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages. — Paloma Faith

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is. — Malaika Arora Khan

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful. — Malgorzata Szumowska

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back. — Abbas Kiarostami

I'm back ... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'. — Margaret Thatcher

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

Cinema has no boundaries ... we all belong to the same artistic community. — Bruce Willis

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. — Beeban Kidron

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema. — Jane Levy

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. — Salman Rushdie

The best cinema is about ethics. — Alexander Payne

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles ... it's a small percentage. — Steven Zaillian

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. — Neil Denari

The cinema that interests me departs from realism. — Jacques Audiard

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about. — Lisa Cholodenko

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own. — Michel Ocelot

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society. — Leslie Caron

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema. — Cecile De France

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles

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

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. — Bjork

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. — Johnny Depp

Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. — Satyajit Ray

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' — Tommy Lee Jones

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between. — Francois Truffaut

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. — Yann Martel

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped. — Luis Bunuel

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. — Sergei Eisenstein

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time. — Leonard Slatkin

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. — Ira Sachs

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. — Al Stewart

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty. — Ali Suliman

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

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. — Leos Carax

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself. — Charlotte Rampling

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel. — Ed Speleers

What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema ... the form. — Valeria Golino

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time. — Hollis Frampton

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know? — Mark Waters

Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema. — Tena Desae

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. — Antoine Fuqua

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema. — Deepika Padukone

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it. — Claire Denis

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual. — Bruno Dumont

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. — Werner Herzog

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive. — Ludivine Sagnier

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it. — Peter Greenaway

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema. — Marc Webb

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply — Luis Bunuel

I wish life could be like a three hour cinema show where I can get a beautiful girl as my lover and perhaps an item song when I am tired — Nelson Jack

I'm not educated about cinema or genres. — Imtiaz Ali

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end. — Peter Greenaway

Cinema is a world of imagination. — Marjane Satrapi

The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats. — Theodore Roszak

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

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head. — Eric Cantona

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is. — Jacques Audiard

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. — Roman Polanski

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. — Robert Bresson

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film. — Miguel Gomes

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. — David Lynch

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. — Guillermo Del Toro

Had to run out of a cinema because the smell of the woman's perfume sitting next to me (Opium) combined with her popcorn made me retch. — Liane Moriarty