328 Quotes About Cinema

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

In a movie he could dream without effort; all he had to do was lean back in a seat and keep his eyes open.

When life slowly strangles our quintessence, cinema comes to reconnect us with our own hidden true selves: with the dazzled child within us, with the writer, with the dreamer, and take a moment to reflect upon and challenge our perception of the world.

On the whole, however, art is free, shameless, irresponsible, and, as I said: the movement is intense, almost feverish, like, it seems to me, a snakeskin full of ants. The snake itself has long been dead, eaten, deprived of its poison, but the skin moves, filled with meddlesome life.

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.

If a fleet of jet-black CHOPPERS ain't cresting over a back-lit hill by the end of Act II, you've got to start asking yourself whether this is a movie or a fucking art installation.

This Satan who ruled over the lush dreams of the female sex.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.