Ben Kingsley Quotes

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

We were built to be rhythmic.

All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

Timing has a lot to with art.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

Comedy and music are so similar because it's all about timing.

I don't like fast cuts. I'd rather shoot something that dances to the music.

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

I left my rhythm back in Denver.

Everybody's been blessed with something, and my gift is my timing. Let's face it, it's all about keeping time and having a groove.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.