HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.

In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

I simply love Malayalam films because they do great cinema, and there is a whole lot of effort that goes into it.

The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

I can't believe all this is happening to me, but I am definitely here to stay. And I am happy to be in Indian cinema.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

I have grown up watching Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar movies. Naturally, I aspire to be a part of their kind of cinema.

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