Top 100 Cinema Is Quotes
#1. The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
George Bernard Shaw
#2. One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
Mike Figgis
#3. A film in cinema is what in theatre would be realism - and vice versa.
In cinema - as in life - the text, the words, are refracted in everything
apart from the words themselves. The words mean nothing
words are water.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#4. Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
Peter Greenaway
#5. Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.
Peter Greenaway
#6. Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
Catherine Deneuve
#7. Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.
Frank Miller
#8. Cinema is my home. I think I've always lived in it.
Agnes Varda
#9. I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
Malaika Arora Khan
#10. Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#11. That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
Catherine Deneuve
#12. American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.
Ben Dreyfuss
#13. 90 percent of Indian cinema is crap
Rahul Bose
#14. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
Yann Martel
#15. Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Abbas Kiarostami
#16. I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.
Lav Diaz
#17. Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.
Stanley Donen
#18. I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.
Leos Carax
#20. I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Manuel Puig
#21. To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
William Friedkin
#23. Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.
Jean-Luc Godard
#24. I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
Claire Denis
#25. My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
Roberto Benigni
#26. 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.
Jacques Audiard
#27. I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.
Joan Chen
#28. I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
Ann Macbeth
#30. Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.
Pierce Brosnan
#31. For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
#33. A movie is something you see, cinema is something that's made.
Steven Soderbergh
#34. We need to see ourselves projected in other members of our species to, in turn, understand ourselves. Cinema, is that mirror. It is a bridge between the others and us.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#35. The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.
Philip French
#36. My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#37. The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#38. The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
Ivor Novello
#41. For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
Fritz Lang
#42. My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.
Peter Greenaway
#43. 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 render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
Jean-Luc Godard
#44. It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.
Rohit Shetty
#46. I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.
David Lynch
#47. The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola
#48. A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello
#49. 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.
John Marmysz
#50. 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 country.
Philippe Falardeau
#52. I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.
Jeremy Thomas
#53. What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.
Jihan El-Tahri
#54. The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
Charlie Chaplin
#56. Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
David Lynch
#57. Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.
Marjane Satrapi
#58. Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.
Mark Ruffalo
#60. That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
Nicole Kidman
#62. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
Slavoj Zizek
#63. More than an actor, I am a performer ... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.
Shah Rukh Khan
#64. I spent 15 years of my career trying to convince people that Indian cinema is relevant. I am so proud of Indian cinema and I am so proud of my Indian roots. The IIFAs are doing a great job to this effect.
Shekhar Kapur
#65. Perhaps cinema is the most personal art, the most intimate. In cinema only the author's intimate truth will be convincing enough for the audience to accept.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#66. The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.
Lav Diaz
#67. The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.
Jack O'Connell
#68. American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier
#69. For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#70. With an award like the Asian Film Awards, we've sent a message saying that 'Asian Cinema is here, it matters, and more importantly, we are all part of the same fraternity!' The AFA is truly, then, an award for Asia, by Asia.
Michelle Yeoh
#71. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
David Lynch
#72. We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
Ali Suliman
#73. I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.
David Bowie
#74. Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."
Agnes Varda
#75. Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
Bruno Dumont
#76. Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.
Anurag Kashyap
#77. Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out
Martin Scorsese
#78. Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.
Bruno Dumont
#79. I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.
Peter Greenaway
#80. Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.
Kevin Brownlow
#81. Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.
Golshifteh Farahani
#82. I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.
Lea Seydoux
#83. I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.
Sunny Deol
#84. To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.
Jonas Mekas
#85. I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.
Miguel Gomes
#86. A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
Jane Campion
#87. Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.
Martin Scorsese
#88. Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.
Claude Lelouch
#89. The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.
Abbas Kiarostami
#90. Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
Jacques Audiard
#91. Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard
#92. The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.
Tina Ambani
#93. Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
Steven Moffat
#94. When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#95. I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
Zooey Deschanel
#96. Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
Bruno Dumont
#97. My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#98. Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#99. My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
Sergio Leone
#100. Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
Bae Doona
