La photographie, c'est la ve¤  rite¤  . Le cine¤  ma: la ve¤  rite¤   vingt- quatre fois par seconde. Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

-Godard,Jean-Luc
  Le Petit Soldat.

Most cinema is built along19th-century models.You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes. Most of the cinema we've got is modelled on Dickens and Balzac and Jane Austen.

-Greenaway, Peter
  In The Guardian,10 May.

  If the cinema is any kind of force for social change, then it's a force for the bad, because most films are about one guy with a gun solving a problem.

-Loach, Ken
  In Cineaste, Winter issue.

Mon fre'  re, en une nuit, avait invente¤   le cine¤  matographe. My brother, in one night, had invented the cinema.

-Lumie'  re, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas
Of the night his brother Louis had a flash of inspiration which resulted in the'Kinetoscope de projection'patented in1895. Quoted in C  W Ceram  Archaeology of the Cinema (1965).

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato¤  grafo haya sido para m |¤ el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa¤  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo¤  n†en la pantalla que impregno¤   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

-Quiroga, Horacio
Anaconda,'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa' ('Miss Dorothy Phillips, MyWife').

People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodöthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.

-Richardson,Tony (Cecil Antonio)
  On Britain. Quoted in the Monthly Film Bulletin, Apr1993.

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

-Schweitzer, Albert
  Scorsese: A PersonalJourneyThrough American Movies.