Top 281 Cinematic Quotes & Sayings

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

'Teen Spirit' is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought was really beautifully written, it doesn't really need a movie because it is a movie. So I think you need a unique game - you either need an incredibly talented writer and director to come in and put together an amazing vision, or you need a game like Metal Gear, which is very cinematic, has a huge amount of history behind it, but whose cinematic experience is very different from what you'd get in a theater.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.

When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world's most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

I think my job is to deliver the best, most cinematic, rich, exciting, surprising and emotional version of 'Camelot.'

What we want Vrse to be is a collection of the best in class - the greatest cinematic VR that you can see, and a place that you can trust.

Watching an Amitabh Bachchan film in my village was a cinematic treat.

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

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.

I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.

When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic.

My problem is that whenever I shoot, I do it Bruce Willis "Die Hard" style - in a very cinematic fashion.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

'Himmatwala' was a cult movie that I watched not for great cinematic moments, but for pure guilty pleasure.

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic.

It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

Both cinematic culture and the culture at large have changed profoundly. We're now in post-cinematic digital culture, and the internet has obviously usurped movies, which are no longer central to our lives, at least not as a collective spectator experience.

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.

Make no mistake - LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified.

When you enter a Ralph Lauren store, it's almost cinematic, as though you're walking through someone's home.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

My life is cinematic in some ways.

I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

God of War' is traditionally known for these cinematic, pull back cameras, which I think are fantastic.