Cinephile Quotes & Sayings

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema. — Serge Daney

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. — Miranda July

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go. — Fernando Perez

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie. — Andrew Stanton

But the cinephile is ... a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies. — Francois Truffaut

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me. — Bruce LaBruce

I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories. — Q-Tip

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies. — Jackson Rathbone

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. — Christian Marclay

I'm a crazy cinephile. — Bradley Cooper