328 Quotes About Cinema

I always feel that a man and a woman, who do not like the same films, will eventually divorce.

On sent la différence si tu es en train de danser avec le personnage ou si tu regardes son corps danser. C'est un langage visuel. Si la cause des femmes t'intéresse, ton objectif le montrera.

I tried to book a flight to her mind, but I’m not on the list. And now I’m terminal: I’m breathing brandy.I’ve incorporated another tally mark on my wrist.I get my vitamins in: colored capsules I call candy.Life is just a bunch of dashes— Interrupted sentences with no finish line.But at least if you wet your eyelashes, You can get a cinematic look in life.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

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.

[On Dr. Strangelove]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. [...] What could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differences that will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages appear to us today?

Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

Naturalism was never the point.