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...

In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse – it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to the medium’s essential marriage of light and dark, or as Mary...

Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn’t quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and...

I don’t go to the cinema much.

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

It was quite an intense time in Belfast in 1977 and I remember going to see it in the cinema. It was a very, very dicey area of Belfast. And the cinema was packed. In...

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

In this business, until you’re known as a monster, you’re not a star

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

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

Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years,

It’s a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema.

I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a...

Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it’s the same thing for a...

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible...

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

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurprising that you...

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

The words ”Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what...

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

Once you’re on the set and shooting, it’s all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

If, after they’ve gone to the cinema and they’ve seen it, [audience members] think ‘I much preferred Pierce Brosnan, or anyone else for that matter,’ it could be the kiss of death, … It could...

He told me this incredible story that Walt’s first really big production as a cartoonist for the cinema had been a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was before Mickey. And for reasons that...

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they...

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I’m comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven’t been comfortable.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is...

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

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.

On one hand it is truly independent cinema. We were just a couple of interested people who decided to make a movie. On the other, the style of the film is not bland; it’s not...

Stahl trailed him upstairs, across a mezzanine, and out into the darkness of the sloping balcony. Tom gave the aisle his torch so his guest could see. On the screen below a woman’s head was...

nostalgia” by honoring The Artist and Hugo. Give me a break! Hugo represents cutting-edge storytelling by a world-class director—in 3-D, no less. The Artist dares to revisit a form of cinema that was abandoned in...

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy.”Pex was unrepentant. “Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us … all those things.”But—buried alive! That’s like in that horror movie. Y’know — the one with all...

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

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln’s nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission…was rather upset at this thought. I...