#cinema

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

— Julius J. Epstein

#cinema #movie-quotes #movies

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree. ↗

— Kim Ki-duk

#controversy #horror #human #human-nature #oriental

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

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

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#cinematic #deeply #lawrence #movie #ultimate

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#am #cinema #enjoy #even #even now

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#cinema #faces #film #formulae #generation

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 because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american cinema #because #case #cinema #coming

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