Cinema quotes

“As any other form of Art, cinema is only important if used to open doors to discussion and to talk about the things that you don't want to hear. Otherwise it's just a mere object of vanity.”
João Costa Menezes

“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
Gene Kelly

“Cinema is a mirror of reality and it is a filter.”
Marco Sgrosso - Nico - Art Historian

“John Ford isn't exactly a bum, is he? Yet he never gave me any manure about art. He just made movies and that's what I do.”
John Wayne On John Ford

“Film is too vast a medium for self-indulgence. It's a dangerous tool and you must be responsible when you use it.”
Fritz Lang

“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
Frank Capra

“I know a little something about the world because I'm a 52-year-old manic asshole! It's a horrible world! Starvation, dismemberment, torture, rape, corn-holing... it's horrible out there, but it's worse here in the movie set! We have danger... and stupidity! I don't want someone dying on my set! If someone dies here, I'll blow my brains out and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lloyd Kaufman - Larry Benjamin

“I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies.”
David Morse

“Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry.”
Brian Cox

“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
Tom Hooper

“Don't give up the fight for truly independent cinema!”

Lyle Derek - Asshole P.A.

“Cinema is not in advance of the public any more. It follows. Serious film criticism is slowly dying. I cannot foresee what the cinema will be like tomorrow, the course seems uncertain.”
Theo Angelopoulos

“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”
Sir Michael Caine

“I don't necessarily like going to the movies.”
Daniel von Bargen

“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
Tom Hooper

“We are having problems relaunching cinema as a popular art.”
Sergio Castellitto

“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”
Peter Greenaway

“In the movies, they chop you all to bits. Cut, cut, cut. It’s a jigsaw puzzle. But you’re not the one to put the pieces together.”
Ana de Armas - Norma Jeane

“Now that my family has disintegrated, I don't like life anymore. I don't like it anymore. I want an imaginary life, just like the one I had before. I don't like reality anymore. Reality is lousy. That's why I want to make films, even though I've only seen three or four.”
Filippo Scotti - Fabietto Schisa

“Antonio Capuano-To make films you gotta have balls. Do you have balls? I rather doubt it. So you need pain. You got that?
Fabietto Schisa-Yes, I told you. On that front, I'm good.
Antonio Capuano-What did you tell me? What pain? No, you don't have pain. You have hope. With hope, you make comforting films. It's a trap.
Fabietto Schisa-They...” (continue)(continue reading)
Filippo Scotti - Fabietto Schisa
Ciro Capano - Antonio Capuano

“At one point, a journalist called. Fellini says to him: Cinema's not good for anything, but it's a distraction. The journalist must've asked him: A distraction from what? And Fellini says: From reality, reality is lousy.”
Marlon Joubert - Marchino Schisa

“No, dude, independent films are those black-and-white hippie movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.”
Trey Parker - Eric Cartman

“I hate these indie films. Nothing ever happens.”
Jensen Ackles - Dean Winchester

“I never fit in for lots of reasons, but movies were always there for me.”
Abbi Jacobson - Katie Mitchell

“Oh, you think that I didn't have ambition? I was a good actor. But I was never going to be a great actor. It was very very hard to admit that to myself. But once I had, I felt free from the tyranny of ambition. I started to live.”
Hugh Grant - St Clair Bayfield