It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.
The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.
If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.
If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.
It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.
I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
[to Elena] Alfredo: Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.
[last lines] Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: Yes, of course. We'll talk later.
Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
