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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

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

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.