Top 80 Cinematic Quotes

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They’re the most important cinematic component.

We Need To Talk About Kevin,’ as an adaptation, was pretty major. It’s a long book, and it’s in letters, so it was a real editing experience to boil that down and make it cinematic. I learned a lot doing that film.

Children of Men’ reinforces what few would doubt, but which British cinema would seldom lead you to suspect: the British landscape bristles with cinematic potential.

It was a dream come true to work alongside an all-Asian cast, telling a beautiful and powerful story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I was born on the fairer side, but I’ve always been fascinated by dusky and dark tones. So, when the makers of my films asked me to go a few shades darker, I didn’t think twice. I am not doing anything extraordinary, but I want to break cinematic notions about outwardly appearances.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

With ‘Cold Skin,’ I believe we can create a lasting psycho-physiological horror film. It is one of the most atmospheric, terrifying, cinematic, and original stories of the human spirit.

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

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.

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the ’60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

I think my job is to deliver the best, most cinematic, rich, exciting, surprising and emotional version of ‘Camelot.’

I haven’t read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

Our touchstones of slavery are ‘Song of the South,’ ‘Gone With the Wind’ and ‘The Birth of a Nation.’ It’s hard to separate the cinematic quality from the underlying themes. I appreciate the films, but the message was repugnant.

What’s the hardest thing about making a show like ‘Vinyl’ or ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ is they are expecting movie-level cinematic quality in every way – from the performances to the visuals and the shots – especially on a show where you are doing Scorsese style.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a ‘cinematic’ dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

Vijay Anand’s death marks the passing away of a true, original mind. Vijay had charisma and cinematic dazzle. He was the first who gave Indian film directors the status of a star.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

Both ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ and ‘Udham Singh’ are cinematic experiences; nothing is less, nothing is more. It’s all about creating good cinema.

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

I really think that the ‘Jersey Boys’ musical – and this is just my opinion – lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because it’s a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.

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.

I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one day. Action is very cinematic.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Every character, when it comes to a cinematic representation, gets complicated and layered. You are given a lot of dimensions than a single dimension to an individual. That’s the main difference between seeing something out of the window and seeing something on screen.

A lot of Ennio Morricone’s music is just – it’s very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

‘Interstellar’ may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

I still don’t feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can’t separate one from the other.

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world’s most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

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.

I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western, and cinematic dance, as I was quite laid back with the training.

I feel like I’m on crutches when I have to go by the dialogue sheet. I want the artiste’s natural, spontaneous reaction and vocabulary so that it adds a genuine flavor to the scene without which the sequence becomes entirely cinematic.

Even though there’s a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn’t seen Asians at the center of it.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

I could make the title of my memoirs: ‘It’s got cinematic disaster written all over it.’

A lot of cinematic influences on ‘Descender’ – Kubrick for sure. ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

I love the horror genre for how cinematic it is. I gravitated, I think, initially, toward the horror genre because, of all the genres, I think it is the genre that is most friendly to the subject matter of faith and belief in religion.

All of Wes Anderson’s films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don’t think it’s dramatic; it’s cinematic.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Who do I have a cinematic crush on? I mean, it’s such a go-to: Michael B. Jordan. I was like, it’s everybody’s go-to. Who else?

I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you’re filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

Completely committed to adapting ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

We use music, cinematic storytelling and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as ‘Samurai Jack’ travels an exotic landscape. The environment is a major character in each show.

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

I didn’t go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were ‘Godfather II’ and ‘Scarface’. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story.

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.

‘Teen Spirit’ is a celebration of the power that music can deliver to the cinematic experience.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.