“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
H.M. Warner (Warner Brothers 1927)

"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else."
Daniel Day Lewis

"Is the cinema more important than life?"
Francois Truffaut

"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it." 
Andy Warhol 

"The movies are so rarely great art, that if we can't appreciate great trash, there is little reason for us to go." 
Pauline Kael, American film critic , 1919-2001) 

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
David Lynch

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Pedro Almodovar

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
Vincent Cassel

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
Jacques Audiard

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
Ken Adam

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
Shohreh Aghdashloo