I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly. – Rohit Shetty
I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal. – Om Puri
Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands. – Om Puri
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. – Roland Joffe
‘E.T.’ depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I’m very fond of, is a genius. – Richard Attenborough
National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we’re on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word ‘industry’ is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. – Peter Weir
One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable. – Robert Baden-Powell
I don’t believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention. – Peter Greenaway
It doesn’t matter if it’s black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it’s very good for cinema. – Thomas Langmann
Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give a personal narration on the screen. – Sushant Singh Rajput
I’m not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, ‘Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?’ – Wong Kar-wai
When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree. – Sarah Gadon
When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn. – Sophie McShera
I’m getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s. – Wim Wenders
I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff – very detached from films. – Vijay Sethupathi
I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For ‘Antiviral,’ for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,’ and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It’s all about scopophilia. – Sarah Gadon
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we’re echoing what’s been done way in the past. – Walter Salles