"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."
- Slavoj Žižek
"Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your ..."
- Jim Morrison
"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."
- Alain de Botton
"The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second"
- Jean-Luc Godard
"When everything gets answered, it's fake."
- Sean Penn
"In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God."
- Orson Welles
"Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness."
- Abhijit Naskar
"The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors."
"Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant."
"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."