Cinema Quotes - Page 2

• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Movie, Inspiring, Humorous

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

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• For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Cake, Pieces

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• Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

  Leslie Caron

  Play, Important, Roles

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• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

  Movie, Gambling, Film Directing

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

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• I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

  Ewan McGregor

  Independent, Bigs, Blockbuster

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Thinking, Fog

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• The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Stories, Detectives

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.224, Psychology Press

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• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

  Satyajit Ray

  Communication, Mind, Intimacy

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Pity, No Money

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• In cinema, the leading player is the director.

  Ben Kingsley

  Player, Directors

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• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Life Is Short

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

  Luc Besson

  Medicine, Aspirin, Saved

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

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• There's no thief like a bad movie.

  Sam Ewing

  Thieves, Bad Movies

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• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

  Ivor Novello

  Home, Giving, Afternoon

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• Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

  Nicole Kidman

  Thank You, Mean, Want

  "I have been through a lot. As I get older I've more to give". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  Wim Wenders

  Phenomenon

  "'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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• The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Fear Of Death, Appeals

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Romance, Magic

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

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• The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

  Keanu Reeves

  Art, Hymns, Humanity

  "'Matrix Reloaded' previews at Cannes". www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

  Jacques Delors

  Guy, Weak, Western

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• Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean, Thinking, Mirrors

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

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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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• I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

  Roland Joffe

  Audience, Knows

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