Will Rogers Quotes

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

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

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Cinema is always evolving.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

I love the medium of film.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

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

No one is bigger than cinema.

Cinema is a temple and who am I to say which person deserves entry?

It's nice to be part of a film that will be watched by a large audience.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

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.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding