Cinema Quotes

As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they’re likable.

I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.