Cinema Quotes - Page 23

• I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Beautiful, Kings, Simple

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• Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

  Donnie Yen

  Choices, Matter, Hong Kong

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• I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Ice, Ideas

  "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

  Romola Garai

  Sex, Dark, Arguing

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Birth Place, India, Language

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• Cinema is an art form.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Art, Form

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• Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Hero, Heroes And Villains, Villain

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• Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Falling In Love, People, Conventional

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• It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Years, World, Students

  Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. April 1, 2013.

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• The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Independent, Voice, Quality

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• There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema are exploring some really bold themes.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Thinking, Bollywood, Theme

  "A Minute With: Anurag Kashyap". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. May 20, 2012.

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• It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

  H. G. Wells

  Reality, Feet, Stories

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• I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.

  Daniel Clowes

  Dream, Spiritual, Believe

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• you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  People, Example, Extraordinary Love

  Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (1994). “Women as Lovers”, p.57, Profile Books

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• The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

  Andre Breton

  Dream, Expression, Long

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• In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

  Steig Larsson

  Simple, Orcs, Evening

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• I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)

  Martin Amis

  Eye, Tears, Faces

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• I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Way, Return, Mummy

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• Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

  Jacques Derrida

  Ghost, Plus, Psychoanalysis

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• Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

  Richelle Mead

  Silent Films, Musical, Sound

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• There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

  Werner Herzog

  Imagination, Mysterious, Poetic

  Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek (2016). “CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana”, p.128, Luigi Pellegrini Editore

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• Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Magic

  Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio (2010). “Stories: All-New Tales”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dream, Heart, Fighting

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Swimming, Love Poetry

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• Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Taken, Eye, Vision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.63, Verso

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