David Ayer Quotes

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

Film is a truly magical medium.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

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.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.