Cinema Trends Quotes

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.

Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.

Remakes are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting.

Women-centric films are being made, and they are doing well.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

People watch more documentaries too now. These movies that would normally be shown in these little art houses, and unless you walked by the theater, or happened to read that tiny zine that contained the info for it, or went to a film festival, you might miss it.

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.

The feature film has changed a lot. Art houses are gone and people show a certain type of cinema in the big theaters now that, you know, it's not quite really good for me, and if I made a feature film, I was think I'd play in LA and New York for a week, and then go right to television.

We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.