John Logan Quotes

The first time you watch a movie that you like, all of the magic works on you. It's an experience of having a world unfold in front of you. But if you watch it again, you start to see where the seams are.

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

I believe that the purpose of cinema is to entertain. The so-called geniuses may have given new meanings to it, but for those who developed cinema, the aim was to entertain.