35 Best Cinema Quotes

If love was a movie, you'd be my favorite rom-com.
I have been searching for you through a thousand years of film. – Chiyoko Fujiwara
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. – Stanley Kubrick
A film is a visual medium, and you must tell the story with pictures. – Stanley Kubrick
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. – Martin Scorsese
If you don't physically experience the movie, the movie's not working. – Martin Scorsese
Cinema is about what is in the frame and what is out. And it's about the rhythm, the cadence of the sequence of these images. – Martin Scorsese
The problem now is that it's being taken away from us. The art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, and reduced. – Martin Scorsese
The beauty of cinema is that it can take you anywhere. – Martin Scorsese
The power of cinema is in its intimacy. – Martin Scorsese
We have to save our cinema. We have to save film culture. – Martin Scorsese
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'No, I went to films.' – Quentin Tarantino
I didn't go to film school. I was a film fan who became a filmmaker. – Quentin Tarantino
I love movies. You love movies. This is not a business transaction. This is a love transaction. – Quentin Tarantino
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. – Quentin Tarantino
I'm a film historian. That's what I do. That's my bag. – Quentin Tarantino
I like to look at movies as a writer, as a director, as an audience, as a film scholar. – Quentin Tarantino
I want to make movies that are remembered. – Quentin Tarantino
Theatrical movies are one of the last mass-experience mediums we have. – Christopher Nolan
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. – Alfred Hitchcock
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. – Alfred Hitchcock
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often much more beautiful than sound pictures are. – Akira Kurosawa
Cinema is a frame. Within that frame, you can capture reality, or you can create a new one. – Akira Kurosawa
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. – Francis Ford Coppola
I think that cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. – Francis Ford Coppola
I think that cinema is a language, and it can say things that are very complex. – Francis Ford Coppola
The power of the cinema is in its intimacy. – Francis Ford Coppola
The goal is that you're trying to make people forget that they're sitting in a theater. – David Fincher
The power of cinema is in its ability to make you feel complicit. – David Fincher
Cinema is a language, and I try to use that language to create an immersive experience. – Denis Villeneuve
I’m not interested in making a movie that you can watch while you’re doing something else. – Denis Villeneuve
For me, the soundscape is 50% of the cinematic experience. – Denis Villeneuve
I think that cinema has the power to bring people together in the darkness and make them feel less alone. – Denis Villeneuve
The human face is the great subject of the cinema. – Ingmar Bergman
I have always been fascinated by the human face and its capacity for expression. – Ingmar Bergman
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