We must have song and dance in our lives; we’ve had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation. – Amitabh Bachchan
Wes Craven’s ‘Shocker’ is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don’t know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it. – Adam Green
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
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren’t words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. – Conrad Hall
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature – my brain is. – Claire Denis
If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he’s going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities. – Colin Firth
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
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema – the international film festivals. – Anurag Kashyap
I don’t go out a lot, as I like to stay in. I often go for dinners with my girlfriend, and I love to see movies at the cinema, but I don’t understand them. – Anthony Martial
Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host’s grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema. – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you’re going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don’t go to the cinema for a maths lesson. – Billy Beane
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. – Catherine Deneuve
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I’m comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven’t been comfortable. – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual. – Bruno Dumont
The ‘Western’ is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. – Andre Bazin
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it. – Baz Luhrmann
I’m of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood. – Alexander Walker
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood. – Barbara Demick
I’ve always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did. – Brian Tee
I’ll definitely say that, before film school, I didn’t have much of a film-history background. I didn’t know much about classic cinema. – Cary Fukunaga
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression. – Bruno Dumont
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years. – Andrzej Wajda
I feel that, particularly because of language, we are handicapped in getting a large world audience. But Hindi cinema has the same ingredients that appeal to the whole world. – Amitabh Bachchan