#cinema

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. ↗

— Björk

#females #feminism #film #gender #men

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#becoming #been #better #chances #china

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

— Mel Brooks

#cooks #essentially #his #moustache #nasty

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#american cinema #cinema #film #film industry #focused

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#closer #dreams #i #i think #our

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. ↗

— David O. Russell

#cinema #compelling #creating #experience #fiction

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#cinema #classical #compare #latter #like

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#cinema #craziest #feet #film #floating

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#become #cinematography #craft #director #how

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#danger #free #great #important #making