“It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.” IfsMatterStoriesBlackWhitePleasureEmotionFilledVery GoodCinemaBlack And White Author:Thomas Langmann
“Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.” PeopleProblemDifficultEmotionDifficultyCinemaExistentialVagueAuteurs Author:Charlotte Rampling
“As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.” ThinkingFeelsChildrenBigsFilmPartyEmotionLaughingCryLike YouSingingIndiaDancingCinema Author:Karan Johar
“It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.” SeemsFilmEmotionAudiencePositionEmpathyCinemaManipulationDominantSubjective Author:Peter Greenaway
“The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love” PeopleHumanityPassionEmotionStruggleHairCinemaClothings Author:David O. Russell
“Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.” KindHas BeensArtIdeasUseFormEmotionNovelStylePaintingTheaterConservativeArchitectureMediumsCinemaMovieOperaFrozenSculptureDance Music Author:Susan Sontag
“It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.” DifficultEmotionMetaphorCinemaAttemptingEvokeSubtlety Author:Conrad Hall
“When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.” RealEmotionCinemaReal Emotion Author:David Lynch