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

“I hate these indie films. Nothing ever happens.”
Jensen Ackles - Dean Winchester

“I never fit in for lots of reasons, but movies were always there for me.”
Abbi Jacobson - Katie Mitchell

“Oh, you think that I didn't have ambition? I was a good actor. But I was never going to be a great actor. It was very very hard to admit that to myself. But once I had, I felt free from the tyranny of ambition. I started to live.”
Hugh Grant - St Clair Bayfield

“John Houseman-All I am saying is, no one can write like that.
Herman Mankiewicz-But I can write like that, Houseman. I have. The narrative is one big circle, like a cinnamon roll. Not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit. You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope is to leave the impression of one.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton - John Houseman

“In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.”
Wanda Sykes

“Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.”
Maika Monroe

“My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.”
Randolph Scott

“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