A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
~Stanley Kubrick.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.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
~Shahrukh Khan. Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
~Jeanne Moreau.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~Alfred Hitchcock .Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
~Roger Ebert.
Film lovers are sick people.
~Francois Truffaut.Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
~Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
~Sydney Pollack.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.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
~Jean-Luc Godard.I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
~Bette Davis.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
~Jackie Chan.I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
~Francis Ford Coppola.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
~Roman Polanski.If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
~Woody Allen.Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
~Robert Bresson.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
~Alfred Hitchcock.
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
~Balthazar Getty.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
~Roger Ebert. Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
~Yahoo Serious.
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
~Pedro Almodovar.Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
~Richard King.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
~Tim Burton. I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
~Natalie Portman.
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
~Roland Emmeric. I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
~Quentin Tarantino.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
~Jean-Luc Godard.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
~Billy Wilder. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~Alfred Hitchcock.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
~Will Rogers.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
~Mary Schmich. The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
~George Lucas.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
~Alex Winter.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
~Will Rogers.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
~Clint Eastwood. We are the movies and the movies are us.
~David Ansen.
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
~Jim Jarmusch.
I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
~Mike Figgis. You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
~Mary Schmich.
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
~Steve Martin. (Will be updated soon............)
