Cinema Quotes
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Cinematic Quotes
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
Subject: Cinema QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can`t teach old fleas new dogs.
Federico Fellini
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Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.
Oliver Stone
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The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
Source: thinkexist.com
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Every medium has to be redeveloped, otherwise we would still be looking at cave paintings ... My desire to tell you stories is very strong but it`s difficult because I am looking for cinema that is non-narrative.
Peter Greenaway
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On violence in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "When I was on "The View" (1997), Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, `Well, you know, that`s a staple of Japanese cinema.` And then she came back,`But this is America.` And I go, `...
Quentin Tarantino
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[on cinema] Truth twenty-four times a second.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn`t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in the sense that the image i...
Wim Wenders
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Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn`t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in the sense that the image i...
Wim Wenders
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I`d rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. There are fewer and fewer "films d`auteur" made by people like Ken Loach or Claude Chabrol. The cin...
Gerard Depardieu
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I`d rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema. There are fewer and fewer "films d`auteur" made by people like Ken Loach or Claude Chabrol. The cin...
Gerard Depardieu
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Realism is always subjective in film. There`s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it`s not really cinema ...
Crispin Glover
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Realism is always subjective in film. There`s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it`s not really cinema ...
Crispin Glover
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Realism is always subjective in film. There`s no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it`s not really cinema ...
Crispin Glover
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In the 8th Grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let`s face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn`t want to translate myself in that direct...
Robert Davi
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One of the proud moments for us was Robert Wise, who directed Sound of Music and West Side Story, he is the great-great grandfather of musical cinema and he said, I`ve seen Moulin Rouge and the musical has been re-invented." I bring this up because you ge...
Baz Luhrmann
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Cinema has become my life. I don`t mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
Pedro Almodovar
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Indian cinema has begun to be recognized globally. And it`s very important for us to make our presence felt at important events such as Cannes. I feel there should be more Indian representation at festivals. India is producing such a large cross section o...
Aishwarya Rai
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Roman Polanski
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I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It`s the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different film, so in a way there are thousands of different version...
Michael Haneke
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[On the future of 3D] "With digital 3D projection, we will be entering a new age of cinema. Audiences will be seeing something which was never technically possible before the age of digital cinema - a stunning visual experience which `turbocharges` the vi...
James Cameron
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[On the future of 3D] "With digital 3D projection, we will be entering a new age of cinema. Audiences will be seeing something which was never technically possible before the age of digital cinema - a stunning visual experience which `turbocharges` the vi...
James Cameron
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Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
Werner Herzog
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[on the untimely death of Pier Paolo Pasolini] A remarkable director -- a great loss to Italian culture. It was as if he was discovering cinema from scratch.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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[Steven Spielberg on Bergman] I have always admired him, and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.
Ingmar Bergman
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[To cinema owners in Las Vegas] "I`ll make you a deal. I`ll try to keep making films that put people in your theatre seats and you try to keep their shoes from sticking to the floor."
Harrison Ford
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Cinema is just a form of masturbation. Sexual relief for disappointed people. Women write and say, "I let my husband do it because I think it`s you lying on top of me".
Dirk Bogarde
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[speaking in 1969] When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema`s job was solely entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatris...
Deborah Kerr
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[speaking in 1969] When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema`s job was solely entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatris...
Deborah Kerr
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