Cinema Quotes

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

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical ...

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so w...

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 My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been ...

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

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing y...

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itse...

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

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

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the scre...

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

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...

[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe’s oldest families, whose roots can...

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

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

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these thi...

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all ...

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

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

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

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

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar s...

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

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...

Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the ...

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious...

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra...

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than...

In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photo...

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys aw...

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alterna...

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced ...

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

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

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happen...

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at the...

I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it r...

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not alwa...

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mai...

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it...