Cinema Studies Quotes

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class.

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

At USC, when I studied film scoring my first year, one of my first friends that I met was Ryan Coogler. He was in the directing program at USC. He became one of my best friends at school.

We have a strong tradition in Toronto of really great film writers, and growing up in that climate is a big reason I pursued cinema studies.