Francois Truffaut Quotes

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.

I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it's not a film. It's not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.

Film is so immersive.

The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.

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.

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

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

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.