Cinema Impact Quotes

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way to be in contact with movies were those American fan magazines like 'Fantastic Films' and 'Starlog,' and I still remember the shock, the impact of seeing the first frames, the first pictures coming out of 'Blade Runner.'

A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very valuable tool. It can also demonize, which is the dangerous side of a war film as propaganda. But there are war films that are not propaganda. It's just saying 'This is what it's like.' For 99 percent of us we don't know what it's like. We have no idea. So to reveal that to the audience is powerful.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Cinema leaves a deep impact on the society. As creative people and entertainment film-makers, we have to be responsible at some point as we are also the conscious citizens of this country.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved.

I think cinema is a reflection of the society and whatever is being shown is because of the climate we're living in. It is relevant, topical, and surely somewhere it's impacting people who can relate to these circumstances.

A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.

'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.'

Cinema has a greater impact as it leaves a long lasting memory. Television, on the other hand, is also good but requires a lot of time.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.

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.

Nothing changes in the world because of cinema.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why I'm an actress.