Cinema Quotes - Page 20

• Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Queens, Media

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• Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Mean, Talking, Europe

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• A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

  Jane Campion

  Stories, Television, Messages

  "Ten Questions for Bright Star’s Jane Campion: 'I’ve Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

  Paloma Faith

  Time Off

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• Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Personality, Body, Firsts

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

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• For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

  Peter Greenaway

  Mean, Ends, Filmmaker

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• I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Realism, Conventions

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• I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "Maybe I'm too clever". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2004.

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• I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Self, Doe

  "Maybe I'm too clever". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2004.

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• Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think about the guy walking down the street, the guy who drove me here - this guy has the opportunity to go the cinema.

  Henry Hopper

  Thinking, Opportunity, People

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• I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

  Dhani Harrison

  Close Friends, Know How, Mines

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

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• Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

  Freddie Highmore

  Film, Fantastic

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• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

  Tom Hooper

  Patriotic, Identity, Bases

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Grandchildren, Opportunity, Giving

  "Abbas Kiarostami Wants To Reteam With Juliette Binoche, Talks ‘Like Someone In Love’ & Weighs In On The ‘Innocence Of Muslims’". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "Arch dukes Ferdinand". Interview with Craig McLean, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 2, 2004.

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• Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

  Emir Kusturica

  Fall, Hands, Together

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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• I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Believe, Musical, Goes On

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• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  Baz Luhrmann

  War, People, Three

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• I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Expression, Novelists

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• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  Samantha Morton

  Kids, Years, Attention

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• I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Long, Lucky, Three

  "Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Sound, Want, Breathe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

  Jacques Rivette

  Ideas, Feet, Floating

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Stories, Soapbox

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

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