Kay Kay Menon Quotes

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

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.

Cinema is an art form.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Film and art are close together.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

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

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.