cinema

A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

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

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.