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As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see the world. This is how I see cinema. And you have to be able to talk about that and explain it and be responsible.

Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Be smart, but never show it.

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

But then when you go through the process of making the film and you sit in the cinema two years later and your jaw hits the floor, it's quite sad in a way because you're looking at yourself - facially anyway - and see the way you looked when you were 20.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Cinema is like dream.

Cinema is movement, after all.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.