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I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.
Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
I really believe in the power of cinema, and with it comes a responsibility to impart some sort of message for the better.
'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.
When people see what real 3D looks like, they'll go, "Oh, that's why I spend an extra $5 a cinema ticket. That's worth it!"
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.
I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.
I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.
I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.
I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.
My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.
What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.
I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.