Cinema quotes

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Cinemascope places a director somewhere between the stage and the screen technique.”
Henry Koster

“If black people did movies, my premise is that movies would be much shorter, because they wouldn't waste time with a lot of excess shit.”
Richard Pryor

“They are doing things on the screen now that I wouldn't do in bed. If I could.”

Bob Hope

“They're in the business to make money. They gamble on people more than scripts because who knows what will capture the public's imagination.”

Norman Jewison

“I predict that within five years you will be able to make a ten million dollar film and get all your money back in one night. There will be 25 million homes with cable TV or cassettes.”
Joseph Edward Levine

“There were giants in the industry. Now it is an era of midgets and conglomerates.”
Otto Preminger

“The biggest disappointment about working in films is that once you realize it's all ridiculous, there's not that much to feel strongly about.”
Sondra Locke

“On Hollywood's theory that the audience knows best, the schoolboy's 'lousy' is the last word in dramatic criticism.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.”
Marlene Dietrich

“Cinema is the director's medium. It is written even less than it is acted, but it is primarily the director's medium.”
Charlton Hesto

“If you can't make a career out of two de Milles, you'll never do it.”
Charlton Hesto On Cecil Blount DeMille