Yann Martel Quotes

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

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

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.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

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

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

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

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide - I still remember the movies from my childhood that I loved.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

Cinema is like dream.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

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

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.