Top 1200 Cinema Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.
When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.
I don't come from a theatrical background, but my mum and dad had fantastic taste in cinema and TV and I loved watching what they watched.
Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.
I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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 the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.
Whenever a film doesn't follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today's commercial cinema, it's considered weird.
For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form
I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema.
Earlier, in Indian cinema, actors were given a certain amount of time to learn on the job. That is not possible anymore.
I think it's possible to bag substantial roles in meaningful cinema despite being a mother. My role in Yagavarayinum ' is the best example.
I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.
If you look over the history of cinema, changes happen when directors embrace new tools and technology and think outside the box.
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.
I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.
Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give a personal narration on the screen.
I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle.
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 was just lucky to be a part of this phenomenon of Indian cinema. Perhaps no other film can ever match the magic and awe of 'Baahubali.'
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
I worked hard to reach where I am and I certainly don't want to lose my grip over either Bengali or Hindi cinema.
When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
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 have grown up watching Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar movies. Naturally, I aspire to be a part of their kind of cinema.
I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.
I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I'd discovered the answer to what cinema should be.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Karzzz is my way' of paying homage to the mesmerising cinema of '80s, to Subhash Ghai's revered cult film 'Karz.'
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.
One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become the embodiment of his character.
I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.
To begin with, I always want to go for scripts that do not have a reference in Hindi cinema. If it is novel and unique, it definitely has a better shelf value.
A.K. Hangal's work is a big contribution to serious theatre. To stick to it despite the attractions of commercial cinema is proof of his dedication.
The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.
I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
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.
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 have always tried to make life interesting for myself by doing different roles that connect mainstream cinema with its offbeat counterpart.
I've had a weakness for Bengali directors, be it Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen, or Goutam Ghose, because of their sensitivity towards cinema.
Since in the end, as an actor, I cannot do much apart from giving my best on camera, I won't let myself be affected by the business of cinema.
I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.
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.
I've grown up watching cinema from around the world, and there are films that have scenes that are far steamier than what we are required to do on screen.
There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.
I understand that there are two kinds of films, there is the kind of cinema which allows you the opportunity to be an actor and then there are the masala entertainers. I have done both.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
It feels great pleasure and honour to be associated with a film like 'Gold.' I have always believed in meaningful cinema, and this movie was one such opportunity.
Superstars in every era have come from outside the industry, and that will continue to happen because cinema is nobody's birthright.
I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.
