Cinema Quotes

• The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

  Orson Welles

  Dream, Ribbons, Boundaries

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• Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  World, Persons, Whole

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 66), 1986.

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  Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

  Martin Scorsese

  Needs, World, Mediums

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Sep 15, 2013

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• Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Loneliness, Space, Empty

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Beautiful, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspiring, Photography, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Bruno Forestier". "Le petit soldat", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Beautiful, Thinking, Language

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• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Real, Mean

  Rolling Stone, No. 421, 1984.

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• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Stars, Thinking

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• Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

  Nicole Kidman

  Thank You, Mean, Want

  "I have been through a lot. As I get older I've more to give". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Thinking, Fog

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• There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

  Molly Haskell

  Movie, Memories, Two

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

  Roberto Benigni

  Laughing, Trying, Emotion

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

  Agnes Varda

  Movie, Forever, Feels

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• For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Cake, Pieces

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• Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

  Leslie Caron

  Play, Important, Roles

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  If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

  Serge Daney

  Believe, Littles, Filmmaking

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• Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean, Thinking, Mirrors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

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• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

  Movie, Gambling, Film Directing

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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• The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  "Six Asides on Paranormal Activity 2" by Nicholas Rombes, filmmakermagazine.com. May 10, 2011.

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• All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

  Syd Field

  Drama, Character, Stories

  Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.17, Delta

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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