Cinema Quotes - Page 14

• Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

  Nick Willing

  Risk, Trying, Hem

  Source: collider.com

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• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

  Nick Hornby

  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.

  Peter Greenaway

  Emotional, Thinking, Doctors

  "Flesh and Ink". Interview with Christopher Hawthorne, www.salon.com. June 06, 1997.

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• Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Couple, Attitude, Directors

  "Sydsvenska Dagbladet", Swedish daily newspaper, May 2002.

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• It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.

  Bipasha Basu

  Art, Believe, House

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• It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

  Bipasha Basu

  Circles, Focus, Full Circle

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• Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Expression

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• I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

  Eva Green

  Blood, Borders, Citizens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Hero, Play, Perception

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• Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

  John Waters

  Hunting, Splits, Should

  John Waters, Marvin Heiferman, Lisa Phillips (2004). “John Waters: change of life”, Harry N. Abrams

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• 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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• 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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• 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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