#cinema

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

— Martin Scorsese

#film #filmmaking #movies #movies

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#hollywood #movies #tyrone-power #movies

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#french-cinema #french-film #french-new-wave #movie-quote #movies

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#film #motion-pictures #movies #movies

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would. ↗

— Julius J. Epstein

#cinema #movie-quotes #movies

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art world #began #cinematic #elitist #exercise

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#certain way #cinematic #context #handled #i

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#absolutely #action #action movies #cinema #even

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#audience #before #blogging #cinema #days