Best Cinematic Quotes

#1. With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

Pedro Almodovar

#2. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

Russell Brand

#3. A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

Jeff Lemire

#4. The Marvel cinematic universe and the Marvel animation universe are things that are very true, in terms of the DNA of what it is. But if, at the end of the day, all we're doing is telling stories that have appeared in the comic books already, then we're not really challenging anybody.

Jeph Loeb

#5. The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

Johan Huizinga

#6. What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

Tilda Swinton

#7. I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Julie Taymor

#8. 'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

Richard Corliss

#9. With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

Lucy Walker

#10. I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story.

Jeff Lemire

#11. I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

Jean-Pierre Melville

#12. And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

Gabriel Byrne

#13. Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible. This is a wonderfully impressive debut: tender, muscled and unforgettable.

Rikki Ducornet

#14. I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Stef Penney

#15. There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

Jonas Mekas

#16. I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Seth Rogen

#17. Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Francois Truffaut

#18. There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Ben Gibbard

#19. Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.

Sam Branson

#20. What we want Vrse to be is a collection of the best in class - the greatest cinematic VR that you can see, and a place that you can trust.

Chris Milk

#21. I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

Peter Capaldi

#22. I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way.

Robert Kurson

#23. I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Jessica Hagedorn

#24. When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

Ashwin Sanghi

#25. I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

Richard King

#26. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

Christian Bale

#27. Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to separate the cinematic quality from the underlying themes. I appreciate the films, but the message was repugnant.

John Ridley

#28. There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

Diablo Cody

#29. ...we're not even really hiking,
more like meandering in cinematic light.

Kristen Henderson

#30. Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before ... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

Kenneth Branagh

#31. Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.

Kenneth Turan

#32. In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

Donnie Yen

#33. My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

Emma Watson

#34. [My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.

Nicolas Provost

#35. I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

Kenneth Branagh

#36. A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

V.S. Naipaul

#37. I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Jonathan Demme

#38. Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.

Christopher Markus