Cinematic Uniqueness Quotes

You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change.

We have to create images that remain in people's memory because a film is judged by what they have already seen. You are trying to create an image that is unique and you have to employ all the resources available to you.

The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

Commingling keenly felt emotion, madcap humor, and retina-bursting visuals, 'Missing Link' is a kaleidoscopic cinematic experience unlike any other.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

I've given 'Bin Roye' everything, and I'm hoping that people enjoy something different coming from Pakistani cinema.