Cinema Quotes - Page 3

• In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Football, Adversaries

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Morning, India, Teeth

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• I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

  Mike Figgis

  Country, Fans, Use

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• I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Writing, Starting Over

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Expression, People, Littles

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• Is the cinema more important than life?

  Francois Truffaut

  Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

  Eriq La Salle

  Thinking, Disposable

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

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• It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

  Tom Felton

  Car, Shocking, Havens

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

  Manuel Puig

  Reality, Literature, Modern

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• Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

  James Broughton

  Theater, Verses

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• Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

  Antonia Fraser

  Exercise, Zest, Swim

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• My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Children, Father

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

  Kevin Costner

  People, Critics

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• Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Taken, Soul

  "Deneuve hits out at 'soulless' Hollywood". www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2002.

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• I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Silence, Quiet

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• I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Movie, Two, Groups

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• Most horror movies are certainly that.

  Brendan Behan

  Horror

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• I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Romantic Love, Normal, Classic

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

  John Lasseter

  Mediums, Audience

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

  Robert Bresson

  School, Media, People

  "Notes on the Cinematograph".

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  World, Film, Ten

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