Cinema Appreciation Quotes

The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

I will watch any film directed by Imtiaz Ali.

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.

Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie.

Acting began as a casual thing, but along the way, I did films like 'Happy Days,' '100% Love,' and 'Baahubali' that made me fall in love with cinema. I can't imagine being in any other profession.

I am a big movie buff. So, I make sure I watch two-three movies a week, not many because I don't want to get addicted.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

I love KIFF. No one can stop me from being a part of it. I have always watched good movies there. Earlier on, that was the only space to watch good cinema.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Everywhere I go today, people talk about Bengali cinema. I completely refuse to accept that Bengali filmmakers are not making good films.

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

Maybe actors are more passionate about cinema than actresses. Many heroines today seem unable to look beyond glamour.

I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.

"Centurion" is probably one of my favorites [of RZA Day ].

I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

Tamil cinema has always been special for me for people here are thorough professionals.

I owe everything to Punjabi cinema.

I had no patience for films. It was only after I met Shah Rukh that I learnt to enjoy his passion for cinema.