Cinema Quotes - Page 25

• In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

  Jonas Mekas

  Europe, Care, United States

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.

  Maya Deren

  Art, Soul, Mind

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• People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or the counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be?

  Todd Haynes

  Character, Gay, Thinking

  "What’s Happening to ‘Queer’ Cinema in the LGBT Film Boom?" by E. Alex Jung, www.vulture.com. May 16, 2018.

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• I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Thinking, Needs, Film

  "“Cinema Needs Good Images”: An Interview with Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Kaleem Aftab, filmmakermagazine.com. May 29, 2014.

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• When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

  Sergio Leone

  Frustrated, Elements, Surprise

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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Age, Adults, Watches

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Differences, Community

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• A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

  Hollis Frampton

  Angel, Devil, Faces

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• To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.

  Hollis Frampton

  Space, Mind, Elements

  "On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton".

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• It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Ideas, People, Who We Are

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

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• I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.

  Lea Seydoux

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  Yahoo Serious

  Years, Worry, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  World, Towns, Evening

  "How Dino De Laurentiis Defied Moviemaking Convention" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

  Kabir Bedi

  Want, Faces, Sticks

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• A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.

  Paul Rotha

  Real, Sound, Use

  Paul Rotha, Robert Kruger, Duncan J. Petrie (1999). “A Paul Rotha Reader”, p.60, University of Exeter Press

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• I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Drug, Psychedelic, Asks

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• I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'

  Wong Kar-wai

  School, What If, Curiosity

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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• The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

  Kim Jong Il

  Art, Important, Development

  "On the Art of the Cinema". Book by Kim Jong Il, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 1973.

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• Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Film, Made, Young

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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Adults, Our Society, Spheres

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• Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Magic, Radio, Ventriloquism

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• During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

  Francois Truffaut

  Falling In Love, War, Saws

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• But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Lenses, Form, Angle

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".

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• I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.

  Robert Burchfield

  Moving, Two, Elements

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• What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Dreamer, Directors, Movement

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