Jean Cocteau Quotes

Cinema is like dream.

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

Movies are different from real life.

There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

For me, cinema is happiness.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

Cinema is movement, after all.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.