Cinema Quotes - Page 20

• Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think about the guy walking down the street, the guy who drove me here - this guy has the opportunity to go the cinema.

  Henry Hopper

  Thinking, Opportunity, People

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• I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

  Dhani Harrison

  Close Friends, Know How, Mines

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

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• Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

  Freddie Highmore

  Film, Fantastic

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• American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

  Tom Hooper

  Patriotic, Identity, Bases

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Grandchildren, Opportunity, Giving

  "Abbas Kiarostami Wants To Reteam With Juliette Binoche, Talks ‘Like Someone In Love’ & Weighs In On The ‘Innocence Of Muslims’". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "Arch dukes Ferdinand". Interview with Craig McLean, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 2, 2004.

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• Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

  Emir Kusturica

  Fall, Hands, Together

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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• I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Believe, Musical, Goes On

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• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  Baz Luhrmann

  War, People, Three

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• I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Expression, Novelists

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• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  Samantha Morton

  Kids, Years, Attention

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• I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Long, Lucky, Three

  "Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Sound, Want, Breathe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

  Jacques Rivette

  Ideas, Feet, Floating

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Stories, Soapbox

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

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• If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

  Alexander Payne

  Epic, Thinking, Levels

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.

  Alexander Payne

  Giants, Needs, Stories

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.

  Michael Haneke

  Done, Want, Film

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

  Michael Haneke

  Unexpected Gifts, Actors, Compromise

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Art, Mind

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.

  Jonas Mekas

  Summer, Children, Keys

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• Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema

  Sanjay Leela Bhansali

  Actors, Hindi

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• 90 percent of Indian cinema is crap

  Rahul Bose

  Crap, Percent, Indian

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• Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

  Jerome Jarre

  Media, People, Purpose

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