Cinema Quotes - Page 7

• I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Years, Six, Enjoy

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

  John Hurt

  Mind, Theatre, Film

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

  James Iha

  Records, Lines, Partnership

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• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Psychology, Theatre, Used

  "The Films Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Retrospective", www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Class, Everyday, India

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• I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

  Leos Carax

  Care, Film, Made

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• What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

  John Berger

  Art, Vagrants, Spontaneous

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• There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

  Martin Scorsese

  Simple, Directors, Filmmaker

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• I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Doe, World, France

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• I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Bored, Might

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Shore, Ifs

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• There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

  Louis Garrel

  Fashion, Character, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Economy, International, Global Economy

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• I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Spain, Bad Times, Born

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• Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

  John Berger

  Art, Nature, Drama

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.736, Vintage

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• The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

  Aaron Allston

  Lying, Cat, Differences

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• American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Reflection, Film, American Capitalism

  Sergei Eisenstein (1964). “Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense”

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• Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

  Peter Greenaway

  Stories, Structure, Form

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In my films, I hope there are a few moments where you feel almost illuminated, like in a state of ecstasy, stepping out of yourself, beyond yourself and perceiving something which is only, in the case of cinema, possible in collective dreams.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Film, Moments

  "Interview with Director Werner Herzog. 'I Am Clinically Sane'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 12, 2010.

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• Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

  Bruno Dumont

  Light, Shadow, Back And Forth

  "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival" by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

  Leos Carax

  Territory, Way, Film

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