Cinema Quotes - Page 13

• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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• The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

  Salvador Dali

  Photography, Perspective, Different

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• The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

  Andre Bazin

  Duration, Lenses, Photographer

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• I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way. The art of cinema can communicate that way, and that's why I wanted to do it that way.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Art, Way, Visceral

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Independent, Thinking, Better Now

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.

  Elia Suleiman

  Ambition, Judging, Borders

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• Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.

  Reggie Lee

  Book, Ice Cream, Shoes

  "Reggie Lee from TV’s Grimm: Kindness + Abundance + Infiniteness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

  Peter Greenaway

  Umbilical Cord, Earth, Break

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.

  James Hunter

  Song, Nudge, Causes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

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• I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.

  Karen Allen

  Hurt, Wall, Thinking

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

  Christine Vachon

  Hollywood, Narrative, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if I don't see Brooklyn I have to see Anomolisa, because it's Charlie Kaufman. No one is doing things that they should't be doing more in cinema than Charlie Kaufman. This is how I look at it: he had an incredible story that was going to resonate regardless, but just shooting that movie is too easy for Charlie Kaufman.

  Bun B

  Brooklyn, Shooting, Looks

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• I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Careers, Normal, Academic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Art, Government, Mexican

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Opportunity, Thinking, Films And Movies

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

  Alan Palomo

  Choices, Literature, Too Much

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Reality, Feelings, Degrees

  "Isabelle by Isabelle". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2016.

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• It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

  Max Tundra

  Watches, Enthusiasm, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.

  David Edelstein

  Independent, Hands, Cities

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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• Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Art, Dad, Independent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  Bassem Youssef

  Country, Mean, Egypt

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Class, Two, People

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ghetto, Italian

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.

  Bob Mondello

  Mean, Comfort, Paradox

  "British Playwright Peter Shaffer, Who Wrote 'Equus,' Dies At 90". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 6, 2016.

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