Cinema Quotes - Page 23

• Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

  Pete Townshend

  Black And White, Color, Television

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• I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

  John Travolta

  Legends, Genes, Ability

  Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Beautiful, Kings, Simple

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• Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

  Donnie Yen

  Choices, Matter, Hong Kong

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• I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Ice, Ideas

  "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

  Romola Garai

  Sex, Dark, Arguing

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Birth Place, India, Language

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• I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

  Ed Speleers

  Dark, Thinking, Fans

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• I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

  Andy Serkis

  Men, Digital, Photographer

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum's Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silverman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Laughing, Empathy

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.37, Crown Archetype

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• War is cinema, and cinema is war

  Paul Virilio

  War

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• A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.

  Tim Burton

  America, Long, Together

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Tim Burton interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  People, Groups, Littles

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mother, Father, Firsts

  "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, November 7, 1998.

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• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  Alan Cumming

  Home, People, Different

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• Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

  Jacques Audiard

  Ipads, World, Used

  Interview With Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

  Olivia Colman

  Mean, Mouths, Tough

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• Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

  Guillaume Canet

  Important, Music Is, Important Things

  "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

  Stanley Donen

  Lying, Thinking, Said

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• I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Voice, Support

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

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• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Young

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• Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

  Jean Dujardin

  Black And White, Simple, Stories

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

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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 verite, because you aren't actually there.

  Crispin Glover

  Eight, Would Be, Empires

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

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• I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Directors

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

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Writing, Editing

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