Cinematic Tradition Quotes

Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

Many people ask me why I chose to remake 'Devdas.' I wanted to make a film that celebrated grandeur and grace.

I didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age. I didn't really care to be in the last André Téchiné or Claude Chabrol movie, even though some of them are really interesting. For me, it was much more important to work with Mathieu Kassovitz or Gaspar Noé. It was for me a question of identity.

One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.