328 Quotes About Cinema

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

I want a film which really hurts your eyes.

Film is dead, long live cinema.

There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia: 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.'Duh.

Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator/i>?

Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator?

...it is one thing for experimentation to take place: it is another for it to acquire critical mass – or, to use a different metaphor, for ripples to become a wave....One sign was the emergence or re-emergence of an international audience that actually sought out artistically challenging films.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.