Cinema Film Quotes: top 67 famous quotes about Cinema Film

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

I wouldn't be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling. — Gabby Bess

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

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

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 never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!" — Carey Mulligan

The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema. — Lillete Dubey

You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis — Nicolas Barreau

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. — Francis Ford Coppola

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. — Orson Welles

If you don't like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don't like cinema. — Martin Scorsese

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. — Orson Welles

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours. — Atticus Ross

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! — Derek Jarman

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 do not accept the art and commerce divide in cinema. I maintain that you either have a good film or a bad film. — Sakti Sengupta

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie. — Bahman Ghobadi

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film. — George Bernard Shaw

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films. — Jenni Olson

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. — Slavoj Zizek

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing. — Gaspard Ulliel

Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you. — Bruno Dumont

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out — Martin Scorsese

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film. — Agnes Varda

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. — Francis Ford Coppola

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. — Crispin Glover

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. — Anthony Minghella

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second — Jean-Luc Godard

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. — Michel Hazanavicius

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. — John Hurt

In a mall cinema he watched a Korean film in which a man was locked in a room for fifteen years without finding out why. — Anonymous

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver. — Kodak Eastman

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality. — Jacques Audiard

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic ... — Judith Crist

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. — Bryan Singer

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. — Catherine Deneuve

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. — Gerard Depardieu

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images. — Georges Duhamel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film. — Francis Ford Coppola

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. — Cary Fukunaga

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema. — Nick Frost

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel. — Martin Scorsese

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

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

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog

Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today) — Manny Pacheco

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. — Werner Herzog

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

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? — Christy Lemire

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog

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

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society. — Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide. — Thomas Langmann

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. — Lavrenti Lopes