#cinema

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#film #genre #horror #i #i see

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#better #cinematography #movies #old #old movies

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#approached #being #cinemas #first #freaked

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there). ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#back #cinema #felt #got #had

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#course #credible #criticism #decay #film

The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. ↗

— Andre Bazin

#cinema #genre #identical #itself #only

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother. - Dedication, Todo Sobre Mi Madre ↗

— Pedro Almodóvar

#film #gender #lgbt #pedro-almodovar #queer

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#cinema #combination #during #editing #emotional

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#actually #always #andy #andy warhol #angle

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#cinematographer #heart #i #i am #more