Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Sarandos

On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

Steve Buscemi

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

Joe Wright

I found cinematic equivalents to Austen's prose, ... Her observations of human emotion suggest to me close-ups, not sweeping panoramas. She writes details about the mechanics of social interaction, so that's why there are so many close-ups.

Charlotte Rampling

I am fascinated by the variety of social content and political content in the films we will be judging. This is the kind of cinema I like a lot and the kind I think is very important.

Carey Mulligan

I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Conrad Hall

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

David Cronenberg

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

Crispin Glover

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Richard King

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

Alexander Payne

The best cinema is about ethics.

Alfred Hitchcock

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

David Brown

I was interested in the subject largely because it is a great saga with a great cast, many cinematic elements and a strong sense of urgency for public safety. It involves elements of farce, tragedy and comedy, with many wild twists and turns.

Michael O'Brien

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Richard Moe

Hundreds of these irreplaceable cinemas have been demolished, and more close every year.

Benedict Wong

Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'

Carice van Houten

My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

Charlotte Rampling

I've played the wicked mothers; I've played the serial-killer-type mothers now. They have to have an edge on them. They can't just be everyday moms, because I never thought of myself as an everyday person in cinema - I'm an everyday person in real life, like anyone. But not in what I project out there. I want something more exciting.

Sonam Kapoor

I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.

Anupam Kher

Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.

Gurinder Chadha

'Up the Junction' really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make 'Bhaji on the Beach,' it was this sense I tried to recreate.

It is a question of money, and we should not be ashamed. Cinema is, after all, an industry.

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

Charlotte Rampling

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

Pedro Almodovar

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Pierce Brosnan

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

Baz Luhrmann

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

Gillian Armstrong

I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.

We are very pleased that New Line Cinema has removed the pornography from the video game. However, we are still extremely concerned as to why an X-rated sexually explicit video game was used to promote an R-rated movie in the first place.

Kevin Brownlow

Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

Kelli O'Hara

In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.