There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it..
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 b….
I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will ….
For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself..
Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see ….
French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time..
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form.
My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978..
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..
Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money..
I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist..
I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too i….
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not ne….
In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day -….
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art..
First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history..
Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema..
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply bec….
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that ….
Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them..
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies..