For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

- Alexander Payne

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

- Alexander Payne

The best cinema is about ethics.

- Alexander Payne

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.

- Alexander Payne

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

- Abbas Kiarostami

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

- Abbas Kiarostami

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

- Abbas Kiarostami

I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.

- Anne Robinson

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

- A. A. Milne

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan