Dede Gardner Quotes

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

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.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

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

I particularly love watching 'Hardware' with a young audience.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

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.

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

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

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

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.

A person doesn't only give money to watch a film: he also gives his time.

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.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

Cinema brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It's an art in motion.

We have always wanted to give back to cinema, and we couldn't possibly think of a better way to do that than facilitate films which we believe will make Malayalam cinema proud.

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

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.