I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
The angel said, I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.
My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.
Stahl trailed him upstairs, across a mezzanine, and out into the darkness of the sloping balcony. Tom gave the aisle his torch so his guest could see. On the screen below a woman's head was wavering,...
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
When we leave the realm of cinema, it is obvious that the dynamics of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy---which has historically represented black females as undesirable mates even if they are d...
Cinema is a world of imagination.