Cinema Quotes - Page 14

• I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

  Anton Yelchin

  Dark, Etc, Kind

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema, which is a great space but isn't necessarily the most well attended for a week-long screening.

  Robert Greene

  Running, New York, Space

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Whether people are making narrative cinema or experimental cinematic movie experiences, they all want the biggest screen possible and the quietest room and the most attention to every nuance and detail. Obviously, most people will not see the movie that way, but I can still hope for it, and I'd like to think we will be able to pull it off this time.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Details

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Mirrors, Media, Mass

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Play, Matter, Theater

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Stars, Thinking, Two

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• The one-word cinema wasn't possible for me anymore. I'd hit a wall, a dead end. Therefore I thought I'd turn back.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Wall, Dead Ends, Turns

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• People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  People, Understanding, Curiosity

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Couple, Sibling, People

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Real, Individual Strength, Doe

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Iran, America, People

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Government, Interesting, Kind

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

  Anthony Minghella

  Past, World, Poet

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

  Thomas Bidegain

  Ideas, Boss, Firsts

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Writing, Fields, Film

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

  Adrian Grenier

  Communication, Collaboration, Stories

  "Adrian Grenier: Producer and Entourage Actor Talks About the Lonely Whale". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.

  Karina Longworth

  Degrees, Stories, Paper

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

  Cillian Murphy

  Kids, Film

  "#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

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• Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella Rossellini, if you know your cinema history, have taken their clothes off. There's nothing wrong with nudity, per se, if it's part of the storytelling and it's eloquent and it says something about the raw humanity of the story.

  Natalie Dormer

  Taken, Successful, Our Generation

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• I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Mom, Kids, Television

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be the white guy. And the other guy is his friend who is carrying the bag or whatever, and you're not going to light for that guy.

  Ava DuVernay

  Hero, Light, Two

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.

  Alex Stapleton

  Answers, Levels, Roger

  Source: collider.com

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• 'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.

  Jamie Cullum

  Country, Sex, Japan

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• The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.

  Federico Fellini

  Beautiful, Sexy, Light

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• What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

  Jeff Feuerzeig

  Fiction, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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