The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema.

Bollywood is a cinema of vibrant contradictions, which works when it seems it shouldn't.

Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Going to the cinema or a meal can be difficult, with people asking for pictures or autographs.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Cinema will not go anywhere. We want to watch movies in theaters. Cinema and digital will coexist.

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!

The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

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