Celluloid Quotes

• Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

  Amber Benson

  Dream, Acting, World

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• The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

  Steven Spielberg

  Motivational, Years, Needs

  Quoted in Time, 16 Apr. 1979

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• Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Solar System, Collars, Whole

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Feelings, Fiction

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• Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

  Danny Boyle

  Black And White, Next, Decades

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• As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Dog, Cat

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.

  George Hickenlooper

  Art, Real, Creating

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

  Orson Welles

  Scene, Ecstasy, Can Do

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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 like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  Gary Oldman

  Movie, Magic, Actors

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

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• This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

  Angela Bassett

  Law, Careers, America

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

  Amanda Plummer

  Lying, Skins, Cameras

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Aphrodisiac, Want

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• This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Meaningful, Awards, Dealer

  On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award, recalled on his death, April 29, 1980.

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• The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.

  Andy Serkis

  Space, Romance, Elements

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• I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

  Edward Zwick

  Children, Fans, Watches

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Pain, Hero

  Song: Celluloid Heroes, Album: See My Friends

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• Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.

  Werner Herzog

  Digital Revolution, Needs, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, People, Want

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• The movies are celluloid hemorrhoids. No, worse: They're celluloid Bon Jovi.

  Kyle Smith

  Hemorrhoids, Bon Jovi

  "Hilarious crime comedy 'Pain & Gain' is 'GoodFellas' on steroids" by Kyle Smith, nypost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Technology, Editing, Editors

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

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• I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

  Sergio Leone

  Ties, Bows, Born

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Moving, Unique

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• If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

  Ben Kingsley

  Long, Choices, Wish

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• Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.

  Louis Malle

  Dust, Years, Long

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