Quotes for All
When it’s good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person’s life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I’d never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. Gael Garcia Bernal
I asked the producers when I was doing ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don’t expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema. Gael Garcia … Read more
Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance … Read more
I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster. Ewan McGregor
I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that’s disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that’s what I am known for. Ewan McGregor
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don’t have borders. Eva Green
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It’s not even cinema, It’s just moviemaking. Eriq La Salle
Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise – of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema – of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it. Erich Fromm
My theory is, I don’t know how long it’s going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that’s it, simple. Eric Fellner
The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner’s Cable delivery system or Sky in the UK or you can buy it through Apple, or you might even buy it directly from the studio’s site. Who knows? But that will be it. You’ll … Read more