Cinema Quotes - Page 5

• Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

  Ron Perlman

  Would Be, Ifs

  Source: variety.com

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• What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

  Agnes Repplier

  Taken, Has Beens, Left

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• We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

  Boris Spassky

  Theatre, Actors, Chess

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• Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

  Sven Nykvist

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

  Conrad Hall

  Emotion, Metaphor, Evoke

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• I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

  Julie Christie

  Looks, Faces, Used

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

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

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• I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Dark, Light, Shadow

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Sad, Depression, Bored

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• My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Stars, Thinking

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

  Winona Ryder

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

  Tom Sizemore

  Juice, Action, Film

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, African American, Cameras

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• The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

  Dennis Hopper

  Movie, Men, Mad

  "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

  Colin Firth

  Life, Awkward, Feelings

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• I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

  Charles Bronson

  Beer, Hands, Guy

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

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• Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.

  Walter Murch

  Weed, Flower, Garden

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com.

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• There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

  Mary Astor

  Funny, Actresses, Actors

  A Life on Film ch. 14 (1967)

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• All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

  Clive James

  Movie, Effort, Hollywood

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

  Parker Stevenson

  Morning, Work, Acting

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• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Artist, Greatness

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  All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

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• Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Movie, Editing, Directors

  "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  Kishore Kumar

  Movie, Nice, People

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