I love the cinema, but I’m not a fascist about it. I’ve had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater. – Lenny Abrahamson
I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema. – Priyanka Chopra
I don’t go to the cinema often anymore – I’d rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you’ve got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don’t like it I can pop it out. – Ridley Scott
People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people – the relationships – and it doesn’t matter to them if they’re watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen. – Robin Wright
In the early ’90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. – Ron Perlman
Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it’s not easy. It’s easy to make a Hollywood film, as it goes with a pattern. Our cinema needs a lot of commercial ingredients. That’s why I don’t do many films. – Pawan Kalyan
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own. – Patrice Leconte
Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India. – Salman Khan
I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question ‘why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?’ – Peter Greenaway
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema. – Peter Morgan
Once you’re on the set and shooting, it’s all just cinema. You have actors and cameras. – Philippe Falardeau
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama. – Roger Ebert
I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it’s the only way to be immortalised! – Randeep Hooda
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there’s almost nothing of interest coming out of there. – Salman Rushdie
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics – the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. – Orson Welles
In terms of popular cinema, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is as near perfection as I can think of. – Peter Mullan
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. – Richard Attenborough
It’s a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody’s arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. – Quentin Tarantino