Cinema Quotes - Page 35

• The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

  Jonas Mekas

  Country, Confused, Real

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself

  Sally Potter

  Powerful, Struggle, Divorce

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Home, Years, Littles

  "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration". Interview with Ariston Anderson, 99u.com.

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• I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

  John Grierson

  Looks, Use, Pulpit

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.16, Univ of California Press

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• To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the significance underlying the person that occupy his attention... Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsman-ship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. Documentary is a trade just as carpentry or pot-making. The pot-maker makes pots, and the documentarian documentaries.

  Paul Rotha

  People, Directors, Attention

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• Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

  Rachel Bilson

  Believe, Awards, Judging

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• Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Doe, News

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

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• I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

  Joe Wright

  Emotional, Ideas, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.

  Billy Zane

  Art, Voice, Creating

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Strong, Book

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Weekend, Play, House

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

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• I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

  Peter O'Toole

  Reading, Television, Poetry Reading

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

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• Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

  Antonio Banderas

  World, Possibility

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• I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

  Danny Boyle

  Mean, People, Twists

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Emotional, Editing, Essence

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• Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Film, Affair, Made

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• Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Done, Film, Audience

  "Francis Ford Coppola: There Should Only Be One 'Godfather'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. December 3, 2012.

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• Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Doubt, Novelists, Want

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• I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

  Michael Haneke

  Dream, Real, Trying

  "Michael Haneke: I try to get closer to reality, close to the contradictions". Interview with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, metro.co.uk. November 15, 2012.

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• Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feels

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• There is no border. I'm branding my films as Malay cinema, but it's just about cinema. Everything that I make is about humanity's struggle, so there is no border, really.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Humanity, Borders

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

  Lav Diaz

  Borders, Stories, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Sight, Matter

  "Tacita Dean: Film". Book by Tacita Dean, Unilever series vol. 12, 2011.

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• I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Effort, Crafts, Music Love

  FaceBook post by Priyanka Chopra from May 27, 2014

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• I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

  Joe Wright

  Writing, Thinking, Inability

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