Cinema Culture Quotes

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

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

The cinema is death at work.

I'm not a great cinema-goer.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'

Song, dance and cinema are so deeply within the Indian culture and with so many cultures incorporating their elements too, it has become a wonderful collage.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.

I worked in a lot of cinemas when I was at college, and I'm a movie dork, and it's a nice thing to do while you're on tour. Everything is different a lot of the time - you're never in the same place - but I like going to the cinema because it feels like no matter where you are, the experience is really the same.

I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but 'West Side Story' was the only musical I liked. I didn't like musicals, or films with songs, at all. I always thought they were not real, that the songs sounded a little bit false. But in the case of 'West Side Story,' things were different.

I feel for a film to be accepted, women have to take to it. The women bring the rest of the family to the theatres.

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see?

The word 'cinema' itself means that you have to go to the cinemas and watch it.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

The taste of a multiplex audience in Amrawati is very different from the taste a multiplex audience in Nariman Point, Mumbai.

I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.