Cinema Quotes - Page 28

• I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

  David Shapiro

  Believe, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

  Haile Gerima

  Independent, Movement, Mainstream

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.

  Haile Gerima

  Thinking, Conquer The World, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Landscape, Adaptation, Easier

  "Pacific Rim - Charlie Hunnam interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's a lot of downsides to social media, but one of the nice things is that you can cut through all the BS and go straight to the person and ask them directly. I think that's a wonderful thing. I love talking to people who are true fans or who have a true love of cinema, and so if I can talk to them directly, great.

  Andrew Stanton

  Nice, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Space, Imagination, Belief

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

  Werner Herzog

  Writing, Organization, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Believe, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.pajiba.com

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• I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

  Liam Neeson

  Growing Up, Spring, Hero

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.

  Edward Norton

  Reading, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

  Ray Winstone

  Summer, Squares, People

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• Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Lasts, Very Positive

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

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• I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Feelings, Watches, Want

  "The divine lightness of being Ludivine Sagnier" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2009.

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• There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

  Toby Jones

  Eye, Talking, People

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

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• It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

  Toby Jones

  Keys, Shadow, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

  Toby Jones

  Independent, Imagination, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

  Toby Jones

  Darkness, Giants, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.

  Daniel Bruhl

  People, Interesting, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Typewriters, Film, Carbon

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• My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Careers, Asia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

  Ed Speleers

  Dark, Thinking, Fans

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• I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Hands, Trying, Kind

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• I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

  Andy Serkis

  Men, Digital, Photographer

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum's Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silverman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hero, Talking, Trends

  "Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Hill Talk WOLF OF WALL STREET; Says It's Done with 'a Great Sense of Sadistic Humor'" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 11, 2013.

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