Cinema Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

  Jacques Audiard

  Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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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• I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

  Alexander Payne

  Brother, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

  Leos Carax

  Islands, Wonderful, Ready

  "Holy Motors: the weird world of Leos Carax". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

  Leos Carax

  Country, Feels

  "Leos Carax on “Tokyo”: “Cinema is my country but it is not my business” by Eric Hynes, www.indiewire.com. March 4, 2009.

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• An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

  David Nicholls

  Book, Character, Ideas

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

  Martin McDonagh

  Fun, Real, Dirty

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• I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

  Martin McDonagh

  Theatre, Empty, Feels

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• In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

  Neil Denari

  Interesting, Television, Might

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• But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

  Daniel Pennac

  Reading, Doors, Sound

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• If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

  Kajol

  Character, Thinking, Foolish

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• Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

  Kevin Brownlow

  Pure

  "How we made - Napoleon". Interview with Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2013.

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• I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Priorities, My Family, Clear

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• I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

  Jiah Khan

  Language

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