Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Film is very condensed.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

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.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

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

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

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

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

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

I've always been drawn more to film. But 'Bloodline,' to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.