Cinema Quotes

"I think when you have to do 20 takes for a scene, it gets a little gratuitous there." "I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself." "I’ve always been interested in the concept that every film is a puzzle to be solved" "Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing" "Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint." "Multiplexes are not a bad thing they afford you the possibility of escaping the shittiness of life for a little while through a movie and I love that" "Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like - and the fact that people respond to them is kind of amazing." "I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it." "Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed." "I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies." "Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language" "We’re in an age where the climax of a film tends to be thought of in terms of a certain action set piece, or a fight or something like that." "I think audiences get too much information, and they’re not feeling enough when they go to a movie." "It’s very important that the film reveals something to you about the artist that makes it." "I don’t think film is like other art forms in that it’s a thing; it’s not a finished object, it’s an experience"