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Cinema Quotes

On watching, making, and loving film.

These lines move between influence and enjoyment - a filmmaker tracing his generation's debt to an earlier movement, and someone who just wants to tune out with a freaky horror film. See also Art.

Like everybody, I wanted to meet Andy Warhol. I was impressed by his work and how daring he was. I think he changed the cinema completely, simply by opening his camera and letting it go.

Quotes by Agnes Varda

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

Quotes by Agnes Varda

I never grew up on a staple diet of Hindi cinema. In fact, when I was a VJ, I was averse to it. Purely because I could never imagine myself being an actor.

Quotes by Aditya Roy Kapur

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

Quotes by Aditi Rao Hydari

Always Quotes

Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.

Quotes by Adam Green

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

Quotes by Yvonne Strahovski

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.

Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan

Art Quotes

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Quotes by Yann Martel

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Quotes by Yann Martel

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Quotes by Yann Martel

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Quotes by Yahoo Serious

I did an HBO movie called 'Cinema Verite' where I played Candy Darling. That was really, really cool because I got to meet James Gandolfini and Diane Lane and Thomas Dekker.

Quotes by Willam Belli

Go Quotes

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Quotes by Walter Salles

I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

Quotes by Vijay Sethupathi

Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

Quotes by Vidya Balan

My style of cinema is different and I always look at my films as the audience would.

Quotes by Vijay Antony

Everybody in the two Telugu states, especially the residents of Vijayawada, love both cinema and politics. And 'NOTA' is a cinema with a political subject.

Quotes by Vijay Deverakonda

Good Quotes

I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.

Quotes by Vicky Kaushal

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the range of cinema-related quotes on this page?
They cover film movements, personal viewing habits, and cinema's influence on someone's upbringing. One notes: "And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past."
Is there a quote about loving horror movies at the cinema?
Yes: "I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out." Love quotes has more on enthusiastic favorites like this.
Is there a quote about strong female role models in cinema?
Yes: "I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative." It credits both family and on-screen influences.
Is there a short, quotable line describing cinema itself?
Yes, a very brief one: "Cinema is incredibly concise." It's less an explanation than a compact observation about the medium itself.
Where can I find more quotes about art and creativity?
Try Art quotes for broader artistic themes, or Good quotes and Like quotes for related appreciation and preference quotes.

Others here credit cinema for shaping who they became, admiring the strong, liberated women they grew up watching on screen. More in Good and Always.