Cinema Quotes - Page 17

• An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The problem with cinema today is the dearth of troublemakers. There’s not a rabble-rouser in sight. There was still one, but he went beyond troublemaker to court jester. He clobbered the status quo. That’s Godard. We’re fresh out of ‘bad students.’ You’ll find students masquerading as bad ones, but you won’t find the real article, because a genuine bad student upends everything.

  Henri Langlois

  Art, Real, Sight

  "Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque". Documentary, Biography, History, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either inspirational or despairing. It is a story in which I cast myself; it is my inner cinema, the motion picture of my inner reality - one that moves all the time. No diagnosis can fix the myth, no cure can settle it, because our inner life is precisely what, in us, will not lie still.

  Ginette Paris

  Lying, Moving, Reality

  Ginette Paris (2013). “Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience”, p.81, Routledge

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• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  Powerful, Moving, Technology

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• Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances where many different perspectives could be brought to bear on a series of phenomena associated with the topics under consideration. Yet all the time it was a subjective creation under the auspices of light and sound, dealing with a large slice of cinema's vocabulary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Moving, Opportunity, Vocabulary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination.

  Peter Greenaway

  Italian, Imagination, Television

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• I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Technology, Order

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• I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Wish, World

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby - but just me. Nobody else.

  Peter Greenaway

  Way, Favourite, Screens

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• I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sports, Excitement, Feels

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• I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Feet, Dying

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• I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

  Peter Greenaway

  Stones, Playgrounds, Sharon

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• Cinema has reached a dead end.

  Peter Greenaway

  Dead Ends, Ends

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• Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

  Peter Greenaway

  Long

  "Towards a Present Tense Cinema". Interview with Margherita Laera, www.andreweglinton.com. August 14, 2008.

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• I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Ideas, Plot, Attention

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• Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

  Wesley Morris

  Art, Media, Ideas

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• Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Baby, Sex, Risk

  "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2011.

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  Ira Sachs

  Reality, Shifting, Things Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Lasts, Saws, Remember

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• For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.

  Vir Das

  Strong, Believe, Feel Good

  "Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra inspired Vir Das to become an actor". indianexpress.com. August 16, 2013.

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• People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

  Steven Zaillian

  People, Watches, Subtitles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Football, Spiritual, Catalyst For Change

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Satisfaction, Audience, French Cinema

  "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Emotional, Intellectual

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