Cinephilia Quotes

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

I'm a crazy cinephile.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

I'm not snobby about my movies; I just love all films.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

I'm a total cinephile. I try to watch everything I can.

I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

I'm a cinephile. I love foreign films; I love films that are really immersive.

To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.

I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

I've seen 'The Godfather Part II,' 'Broadcast News,' and 'Annie Hall' more than 20 times each.

When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

I was this classic film school snob who thought mainstream cinema was synonymous with bad cinema.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

Argentina is a bit tough to people. You don't embrace genre film in general. They are more like, in the film community, a bit snobby.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.