Jason Silva Quotes

Cinema is like dream.

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

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

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.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

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.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Movies are a world of Fragments.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.

Cinema is movement, after all.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

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

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.