Cinema Quotes - Page 39

• Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

  Lea Seydoux

  Culture, Fundamentals, Literature

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• Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Looks, Body, Teach

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Thinking, Movement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I loved cinema from a very young age. I was also obsessed with Hitchcock and actresses like Kim Novak in Vertigo. They all played heroines and were strong, powerful women, yet they were very feminine.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Strong, Powerful, Age

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introduce - the idea of spirituality and the idea of there being something else out in the world besides people who are great fighters.

  Alfred Gough

  Art, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

  Gemma Arterton

  Hollywood, Film, Blockbuster

  "The Disappearance of Alice Creed - Gemma Arterton interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Drama, Anime, Japan

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Thinking, Violent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.

  Lav Diaz

  Museums, People, Festivals

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not hoping to see that day but I know that my cinema will reach Filipinos. I know that they will embrace it one day. It will happen. I'm very sure of that. I still have faith in cinema. I still believe it can affect change.

  Lav Diaz

  Believe, One Day, Have Faith

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Creating, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Mirrors, Our World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

  Freida Pinto

  Song, Reality, Thinking

  "Frieda Pinto Calls Bollywood Mindless!" by bollyspice.com, November 26, 2010.

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• Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Car, Looks

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• I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.

  Paul Simonon

  School, Baths, Used

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• I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.

  Simon Boswell

  Girlfriend, People, Scary

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• It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.

  Fernando Perez

  Humorous, Comedy, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.

  Zach Condon

  Thinking, Way, Inspired

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• I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

  Michael Caine

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Believe, Simple, People

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• Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Dream, Magic

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• There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

  Nick Frost

  Differences, Pieces, Film

  "IGN Interviews Nick Frost". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 25, 2005.

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Done

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