Ivor Novello Quotes

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

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.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

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

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

I love filmmakers.

I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.

For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.