We didn’t need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s. The period just prior to our last ‘good’ war. … Boiled down,...

This shows how important Venice now is for American cinema.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen...

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day – no...

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (…) no effort on their part.What...

. . . push that neurotic girl . . . in front of the camera . . . and that whining mop would magically blossom into a warm, lovely, poised and confident actress.” Capra obviously...

London’s new beach and outdoor cinema will be a great addition to the South Bank.

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can’t be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you’ve dreamed you are....

Don’t you go to the movies?””Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

The cinema will be a happy memory for the next couple of years.

Don’t be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

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.

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences...

I’m confident that this festival will help redefine our film industry and put us on the map of world cinema.

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider… To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be...

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.

(…) Porque se antes eu também queria enormemente estar no Brasil de um modo geral, agora fiquei indiferente quanto ao lugar onde viver – foi esse o resultado do isolamento na Suiça. Aprendi a não...

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to...

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ”They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly...

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it....

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

It was not deliberate, just that we didn’t come across American films for this selection. And European cinema is expanding, especially in eastern states.

If you can’t believe a little in what you see on the screen, it’s not worth wasting your time on cinema.

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are...

I’m not educated about cinema or genres.

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

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.

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began...

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

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

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint...

Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, ‘Bette Davis Eyes’. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement...

The cinema is an invention without any future.

It’s not like watching TV; it’s not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big space is alive and everyone is focussed on one central activity.

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few...

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice…it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous…

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow,...

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on...

You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we loved to be there and it did have a great old personality.

My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I wouldn’t know how to begin to explain what this film has meant to...