Cinephile Quotes

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.

I am not a regular at film festivals.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

I was a bit of a film nerd as a kid.

I'm a film nerd.

When it comes down to it, I'm still in love with film - I'm a cinephile.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

I'm a crazy cinephile.

I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.

Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I'm a total cinephile. I try to watch everything I can.

I could not make mistakes while choosing films when I started out.

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

I'm a cinephile. I love foreign films; I love films that are really immersive.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.

Basically, I am a huge film buff and love watching all kinds of films.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I was always an admirer of French movies when I was young.