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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.