Robert Davi Quotes

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

For me, film is an extremely powerful way of conveying a message to a mainstream audience.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

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.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

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'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

A film you can explain in words is not a real film.