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People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.