Fare un Cinema or Fare un Film?

AlenaD’s question got me started.

My dad (proudly Italian side of the family) has a saying, “Fare un Cinema,” which means “make a movie.” The idea is to live life in such a way that it makes a good story. I’ve checked a couple multilingual dictionaries and it looks like that translates into “make a movie (theater)” as opposed to a movie (story), which is “Fare un Film.”

I’d like to get this tattooed at some point but I’m not sure I want to get it wrong despite it being the way my dad’s been saying it for all these years. Any fluents know for sure?