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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.

To be very frank, I never got very good offers from Hindi cinema until 'Eega.' Now, I'm flooded with offers.

Quotes by S. S. Rajamouli

I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.

Quotes by Roop Durgapal

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

Quotes by Ron Perlman

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Quotes by Romola Garai

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

Quotes by Romy Schneider

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Quotes by Roman Polanski

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Quotes by Roland Joffe

I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

Quotes by Rohit Shetty

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television. But while growing up, I lived in...

Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema?

Quotes by Rod Lurie

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics...

Quotes by Robin Wright

Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of all time, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Faust' to 'Sunset.'

Quotes by Robert Eggers

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Quotes by Robert Bresson

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would...

Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

Quotes by Richard King

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

Quotes by Richard King

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he...

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

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.