Beeban Kidron Quotes

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Cinema is an art form.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.