Saqib Saleem Quotes

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

A lot of times, you finish a movie, and you're either going, 'Oh, thank God, that's over,' or 'Oh, my God, it's over, and I don't want it to end.'

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

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.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

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

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.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.