Leslie Caron Quotes

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.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

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 brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It's an art in motion.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

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

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

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

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

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

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'