328 Quotes About Cinema

The festival is going to have its own doses of glamour. European cinema is starting to get glamour.

The best cinema is about ethics.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

I've played the wicked mothers; I've played the serial-killer-type mothers now. They have to have an edge on them. They can't just be everyday moms, because I never thought of myself as an everyday person in cinema - I'm an everyday person in real life, like anyone. But not in what I project out there. I want something more exciting.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

I am fascinated by the variety of social content and political content in the films we will be judging. This is the kind of cinema I like a lot and the kind I think is very important.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

European films succeed not only on their own national cinema markets, but also and increasingly in other European countries and other continents.