Cinema Quotes - Page 16

• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  George Hickenlooper

  Movie, Art, Thinking

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Birthday, Law, Age

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• No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, White

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• Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Beautiful, Sound, Needs

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 162), 1986.

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• Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Struggle, Ideas

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

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• Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

  Joshua Leonard

  Jobs, Reality, Watches

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• Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Color, Example, Elements

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

  Jacques Audiard

  Streets

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• The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

  Jacques Audiard

  Art, Literature, Study

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• The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

  Jacques Audiard

  Realism, Interest

  "Discovering how to navigate the world", www.smh.com.au. March 28, 2013.

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• For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

  Jacques Audiard

  Art, Children, Father

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• I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

  Jacques Audiard

  Believe, Film, Form

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.

  Rose Tremain

  Writing, People, Details

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

  Myrna Loy

  Sex, Hate, Expression

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

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• Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

  Banksy

  Art, Other Cultures, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• I have always hated the cinema.

  Fernando Arrabal

  Hated

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• I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together.

  Hans Richter

  Art, Sight, Two

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• There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

  Bryan Singer

  Play, Challenges, Special

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

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• The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

  Derek Jarman

  Sound, Stories, Lasts

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• I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another kind of truth, and the moment I find, the moment I am separated from that life, the moment I am sort of in a world, every time I have gone out and performed in the, in the cinema for example, if you do two or three films on the trot you suddenly have this impression that you're becoming separate or separated from the world around you.

  Simon McBurney

  Two, Theatre, Trying

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• We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

  Christopher Dawson

  Religious, Perfection, Live In The Moment

  Christopher Dawson (2001). “Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.176, CUA Press

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• A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

  Serge Daney

  Too Much

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• Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

  Serge Daney

  Culture, Today, Instruments

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• There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the credits. But if you ask him whether it's good, he'll say something sharp. But that's not the point of movies: to love cinema is to love life, to really look at this window on the universe. It's incompatible with note-taking!

  Henri Langlois

  Writing, Love Life, Nerd

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