Cinema Quotes - Page 18

• IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Feelings, Emotion

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• MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOSE OF PROSE. I WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW CINEMA IS ABLE TO OBSERVE LIFE, WITHOUT INTERFERING, CRUDELY OR OBVIOUSLY, WITH ITS CONTINUITY. FOR THAT IS WHERE I SEE THE POETIC ESSENCE OF CINEMA.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Believe, Essence

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• IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO A WORK BY DISTINGUISHABLE STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS. RHYTHM MUST ARISE NATURALLY IN A FILM, A FUNCTION OF THE DIRECTOR'S INNATE SENSE OF LIFE AND COMMENSURATE WITH HIS QUEST FOR TIME.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Giving, Individuality

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• MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Jobs, Ideas

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• Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Holiday, House

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.

  Anne Robinson

  Nice, Men, Three

  "Anne Robinson: My husband was the weakest link... but now I'm looking for a new man". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 29, 2009.

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• I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Art, Television Commercials

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• Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

  Bruce Willis

  Community, Artistic, Boundaries

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• A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Made

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• The essence of cinema is editing.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Editing, Essence

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. April 7, 1939.

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• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

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• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  Alexander Payne

  Change, Hollywood Films, Trying

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• We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Mean, Yawning

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• Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Believe

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

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• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotional, Perception, Symbols

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 176), 1986.

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• Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

  Roger Ebert

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

  Martin Scorsese

  Film, Ifs

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• I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Children, Lying, Stealing

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• American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isn’t genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.

  Manohla Dargis

  Mean, Independent, Ghetto

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• Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

  Vincent Cassel

  People, Feel Good, Want

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• In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

  Jean Reno

  America, Battle, Frogs

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• I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

  Werner Herzog

  Lying, Believe, Sometimes

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• Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

  Joan Collins

  People, Want, Facts

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• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  Ice T

  Hollywood, Stories, Want

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• Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

  Irrfan Khan

  Week, Audience

  "A Minute With: Irrfan, formerly Irrfan Khan". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 23, 2012.

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