Cinema quotes

“Cinema is really a question of honesty.”
Cristian Mungiu

“I'm not sure the studios are necessarily the most instructive places for filmmakers to be, except maybe to learn about the hard realities of commerce and art intermingling.”
Karyn Kusama

“Many people assume that the great benefit of television directing is learning to work at an accelerated pace.”
Ken Kwapis

“Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing.”
Mark Waters

“A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.”
Walter Salles

“Digital makes things feel more real.”
Michael Mann

“I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.”
Michael Patrick King

“I don't think anyone wants to go to the cinema and get preached at. ”
James McTeigue

“The networks had essentially thrown in the towel on good drama. It's like changing the direction of an ocean liner. But 'Sopranos' did it. They changed the game.”
Allen Coulter

“It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.”
Renny Harlin

“Making movies is really tough. And it's stressful as it is, and I think that most of us got in this business because it's fun to make movies.”
Francis Lawrence

“There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people.”
Steven Shainberg

“Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore.”
Steven Shainberg

“My love affair with the greatest medium of expression has never faltered. It embraces all other art forms.”
King Vidor

“Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.”
Sam Wood

“I think that comedy can act like an anesthetic.”
Paul Weitz

“Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.”
Jonathan Demme

“I prefer fact to fiction.”
Richard Attenborough

“My goal when I went to film school with was to graduate and have a script I could show people and a film that I could show people.”
Kevin Reynolds

“I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.”
Ted Kotcheff

“It's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.”
Antoine Fuqua

“- Norman: She said Communism was better for human beings.
- District Attorney: She had nothing but contempt for our great country and it's principals.
- Norman: Apart from it's musicals! She said the American ones were better.
- District Attorney: So, the defendant preferred Hollywood to Vladivostok.”

Jean-Marc Barr - Norman
Željko Ivanek - District Attorney

“Cinema must reflect the temper of the times. We must choose material not only on the basis of whether we feel deeply, but on whether or not anyone's bloody well going to see it.”
Richard Lester

“Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.”
Richard Lester

“I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.”
Wong Kar-wai