Film Viewing Quotes

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.

When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

I don’t feel that I’m making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I’m not going to stop them, especially if they’re paying for it, but I don’t recommend it. I think it’s dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they’re not visible. I’m trying to make an epic.

If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.

I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go.

I don't go out a lot. I do go to a lot of movies.

I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

I'm still a big believer in movie theaters, and going to see movies in public.

I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

I don't usually watch my films in theatres when they release.

Cinema is not part of my entertainment.

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

On stage you never watch yourself. You just experience it, and then you go home, and you feel pretty good if you gave a pretty good performance or crappy if you didn't. But in TV and film, you actually have to experience it while you're doing it, and then you have to watch it. And then when you're watching it, you watch it with a different sensibility than how you experienced it.

I'm not a huge fan of 3-D, though. Honestly, I think that movies are an immersive experience and an audience experience. There's nothing like seeing a film with 500 people in a theater. And there's something about putting on 3-D glasses that makes it a very singular experience for me. Suddenly I'm not connected to the audience anymore.

I think any actor that says 'I never watch my films' is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you're going to watch it when you're doing your ADR.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.