Quotes on Cinema

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

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

Author: Andre Bazin

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

Author: Orlando Bloom

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

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

Author: Eric Cantona

I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.

Author: Julie Christie

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.

Author: Francis Coppola

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

Author: Sunny Deol

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

Author: Gerard Depardieu

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

Author: Sergei Eisenstein

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Author: Federico Fellini

I don't go to the cinema much.

Author: Tom Felton

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

Author: Mike Figgis

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Author: Antonia Fraser

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

Author: Crispin Glover

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Author: Jean-Luc Godard

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Author: Conrad Hall

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Author: Lasse Hallstrom

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

Author: Kim Hunter

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.

Author: John Hurt

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

Author: James Iha

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Author: Jim Jarmusch

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

Author: Shahrukh Khan

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Author: Ben Kingsley

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Author: Ben Kingsley

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Author: Hugh Mackay

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.

Author: Ismail Merchant

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Author: Roman Polanski

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

Author: Charlotte Rampling

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

Author: Karel Reisz

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Author: Karel Reisz

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Author: Martin Scorsese

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Author: Martin Scorsese

Cinema was my rite of passage.

Author: John Singleton

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.

Author: Guillermo Toro

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

Author: Lars Trier

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

Author: Marie Trintignant

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Author: Jack Valenti

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Author: Andrzej Wajda

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.

Author: Alexander Walker

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

Author: Andrew Webber

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Author: Andrew Webber

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

Author: Peter Weir

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Author: Wim Wenders

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

Author: Michael Winterbottom