#cinema

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things." But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror." I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#horror-movies #humor #killers #stupidity #humor

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar. ↗

— David Sedaris

#humor #movies #humor

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. ↗

— François Truffaut

#cinema #neurotics #life

Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming. ↗

— Gene Youngblood

#life

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. ↗

— Woody Allen

#film

Micky was a hard taskmaster. He could be very unkind. He was out to judge people, I think pretty quickly, and once he’d made a decision, he never altered it. If he didn’t like you for one reason or another, it was best to leave. On the other hand, with the people he liked and respected, he was wonderful and was very loyal. He was one of those people who liked to be challenged. He liked people to stand up to him, and most people ran away. ↗

— Christopher Challis

#cinematography #respect

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#art form #cinema #form #france #global

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#audience #cinema #group #little #make

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#big #cinematic #creating #described #had

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#cinema #physiological