Cinema Quotes - page 13

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place. (Leos Carax)
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' View quote
Leos Carax
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession. View quote
Leos Carax
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time. View quote
Abbas Kiarostami
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. View quote
Brian Cox
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies. View quote
Brian Cox
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual. View quote
Brian Cox
For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. View quote
Fritz Lang
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books. View quote
Michelle Magorian
While others used the staircase, he used the elevator to stardom. I don't think any other actor in cinema made cigarette smoking a such an asset to his repertoire. (Rajinikanth)
Rajnikanth's dedication, compassion for the welfare of co-artistes and passion for cinema have been key factors for his success as a mass-entertainer. View quote
Rajinikanth
Being fair-complexioned continues to be the norm in cinema. View quote
Rajinikanth
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. View quote
David O. Russell
My teaming with Amitabh taught me many practical aspects of life and the film world. He's one of the most versatile actors of Indian cinema. View quote
Rekha
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical. View quote
Nicolas Winding Refn
Voulagris asked me to find film funding for what was to be the last but unfinished film project of Elia Kazan, a personal friend of Voulgaris. The subject of the film was the immigration of the Kazan family from the beleaguered Greek minority communities under Turkish rule in Asia Minor to the safe haven of the USA where the Kazan family settled. I arranged a meeting between Elia Kazan and the London based film financier Frixos Constantini of Poseidon Films at the Grand Bretagne Hotel in Athens. What followed from this meeting is that Mr Constantini put Elia Kazan in touch with Martin Scorsese a personal friend of Mr Constantini and who also runs the production company Cappa films. And so it was that these two giants of US cinema met for the first time. View quote
Angelique Rockas
Doing cinema is not about watching yourself. View quote
Charlotte Rampling
My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn. View quote
Sebastian Stan
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. View quote
Pete Townshend
These [RAF] airmen were my fellow countrymen, and I was proud to be of their race. I knew the essential decency which was the bedrock of their character, their humour, stubbornness, and self-reliance. I knew that if called upon they could adapt themselves to any kind of life, in the desert, in the jungle, in mountains or on the sea, and that in many respects no race in the world was their equal. But the things that interested them bored me. They belonged to an age of machines; they were fascinated by cars and aeroplanes, and found their relaxation in the cinema and the wireless. I knew that I stood apart from them and would never find contentment among them, whereas I could find it among the Bedu, although I should never be one of them. (Wilfred Thesiger)
I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them. View quote
Vera Farmiga
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. View quote
Matthew Fox
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. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there). View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber