Cinematic Quotes

1. "The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach."
Author: Adam Baldwin

2. "I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic."
Author: Alex Ebert

3. "A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack."
Author: Ashwin Sanghi

4. "Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters."
Author: Bret Easton Ellis

5. "Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic."
Author: Christine Baranski

6. "I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that."
Author: Dave Gahan

7. "She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom."
Author: David Levithan

8. "He thought of firing a shot into the lock for the sheer cinematic stupidity of the gesture."
Author: Don DeLillo

9. "The line from Pulp Fiction—the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands—pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost—almost—share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad."
Author: Elle Lothlorien

10. "My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner."
Author: Emma Watson

11. "I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them."
Author: Eric Van Lustbader

12. "Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths."
Author: Francis M. Nevins

13. "And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
Author: Gabriel Byrne

14. "I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage."
Author: Jean Pierre Melville

15. "And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns."
Author: Jeffrey Wright

16. "I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
Author: Jessica Hagedorn

17. "I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that is, we have a habit of writing fictional futures for ourselves, although perhaps today we incline more to put ourselves into a film. We screen in our minds hypotheses about how we might behave, about what might happen to us; and these novelistic or cinematic hypotheses often have very much more effect on how we actually do behave, when the real future becomes the present, than we generally allow."
Author: John Fowles

18. "There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses."
Author: Jonas Mekas

19. "I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it."
Author: Jonathan Demme

20. "Now there's us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it's ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable."
Author: Joss Whedon

21. "I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
Author: Julie Taymor

22. "I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
Author: Kathryn Bigelow

23. "Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch."
Author: Manny Farber

24. "As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera."
Author: Marshall Brickman

25. "Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks."
Author: Martin Gore

26. "I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing."
Author: Matthew Rhys

27. "But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic."
Author: Mike Leigh

28. "My litmus test of compatibility is 'Tom Cruise.' I hate people who hate Tom Cruise, cultural automatons who at the mention of his name reflexively bridle and say the diminutive thespian and Theta level Scientoligist is 'crazy' and 'a terrible actor'. They hate him because he's easy to hate. They think that despising Tom Cruise's lack of personality and supposed lack of talent is somehow a blow against the bland American Anschluss of the rest of the planet. Tom Cruise may indeed be the Christopher Columbus of the twentieth century, sent off by the kings of Hollywood to prove the new world of International Box Office isn't flat and to find a direct route into the Asian market, but the decline of everything isn't his fault; he's just a cinematic explorer and a damn fine actor. And hating him doesn't make you seditious- it makes you complicit."
Author: Paul Beatty

29. "Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways."
Author: Richard King

30. "Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic."
Author: Ryan Coogler

31. "I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community."
Author: Seth Rogen

32. "[The USA in the '70s] The country's cinematic output was appropriately bleak, reflecting the moroseness and self-hatred that riddled the national psyche. Anti-heroes such as Bonnie and Clyde, Travis Bickle, Popeye Doyle and the Corleones dominated the box office and the public wallowed in a morass of guilty introspection. There was never a country in more desperate need of a blow job than the United States of America: enter George Lucas."
Author: Simon Pegg

33. "My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig."
Author: Steve Buscemi

34. "THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye."
Author: Steven Jay Schneider

35. "You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother."
Author: Ted Demme

36. "PLAINVILLE WAS A QUAINT picturesque town. Northern California's version of Andy Griffith's Mayberry. Bucolic enough to provide cinematic contrast for any low-budget stalk-and-slash film. Juxtaposition played just as important a role in still photography as it did in cinematography. Maybe that's why Natalie Jones had picked Plainville for her final descent into darkness. The climactic scene in a comedic tragedy. Cast of one. Audience of one. Curtain closed."
Author: Virna DePaul

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