Cinema Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

  Boman Irani

  Years, Play, Theatre

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• I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

  Karan Johar

  Song, Religious, Sleep

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Years, Healthy, India

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• For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

  David Nicholls

  Children, Book, Parent

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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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• Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Teacher, School, Students

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• A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.

  Will Oldham

  Song, Real, Space

  Interview with Mike Powell, pitchfork.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, Civilization, America

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.

  Hisham Melhem

  War, Party, Names

  "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.

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• I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.

  Tom Cruise

  Adventure, Giving, Challenges

  "Mission Impossible 3 - Tom Cruise interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Drama, Struggle, Fighting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

  Susan Sontag

  Space, Theatre, Doe

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• Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Numbers, Understanding

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• The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Skills, Understanding

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• From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

  Nancy Astor

  Stars, Thinking, America

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• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  Ira Sachs

  Gay, Stories, Kind

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• Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Different, Woods

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

  David Lynch

  Sadness, Dark, Feelings

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

  Alexander Payne

  War, Samurai, Action

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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