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If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.
The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.
It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.
Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
I simply love Malayalam films because they do great cinema, and there is a whole lot of effort that goes into it.
The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.
We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.
There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.
I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.
I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.
I can't believe all this is happening to me, but I am definitely here to stay. And I am happy to be in Indian cinema.
It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.