Cinema quotes

“As any other form of Art, cinema is only important if used to open doors to discussion and to talk about the things that you don't want to hear. Otherwise it's just a mere object of vanity.”
João Costa Menezes

“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
Gene Kelly

“Cinema is a mirror of reality and it is a filter.”
Marco Sgrosso - Nico - Art Historian

“John Ford isn't exactly a bum, is he? Yet he never gave me any manure about art. He just made movies and that's what I do.”
John Wayne On John Ford

“Film is too vast a medium for self-indulgence. It's a dangerous tool and you must be responsible when you use it.”
Fritz Lang

“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
Frank Capra

“I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies.”
David Morse

“Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry.”
Brian Cox

“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
Tom Hooper

“Cinema is not in advance of the public any more. It follows. Seriousfilm criticism is slowly dying. I cannot foresee what the cinema will be like tomorrow, the course seems uncertain.”
Theo Angelopoulos

“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I don't necessarily like going to the movies.”
Daniel von Bargen

“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
Tom Hooper

“We are having problems relaunching cinema as a popular art.”
Sergio Castellitto

“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”
Peter Greenaway

“They use film as a method for living well, but theater is their heart's desire. They're always going back to it.”

Arthur Kennedy

“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
Leslie Caron On Liz Taylor

“Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.”
Leslie Caron

“The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.”
Cobie Smulders

“Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn't feel anywhere else in my life.”

Jeremy Strong

“Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.”
Idris Elba

“In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.”
John Aniston

“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.”
Anna Paquin

“The slash and burn of the white-hot metal will brand you forever with the logo of Cecil B. Demented. Wear the privileged scar of cinema sainthood with pride and horniness.”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood