#cinema

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#back #cinema #culture #dealing #down

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

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cinema #duplicate #hong #hong kong #kong

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#cinematic #clinic #cover #entertaining #film

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

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#cinema #metaphysics

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#admirable #being #cinema #enjoy #fact

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#cinematographer #colours #control #designer #feeling

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming