Cinema quotes

“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 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

“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

“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