Cinema Quotes - Page 34

• These commercials, I directed them all from inside the tracking vehicle, so I was traveling about 85mph most of the time, so there wasn't really anyone sitting beside me other than the driver. But, you know, yeah the agency is there and VW is there, which is- they're paying for it all and also because the agency created the boards, they want to make sure that you're not going off the rails in executing it. And also they can help, because they- it's a very different thing to cinema.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Agency, Different, Boards

  Source: collider.com

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• I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  Imagination, Film, Theory

  Source: collider.com

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• You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

  Jason Momoa

  Art, Appreciate, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the best person to tell this story. I have a pretty high bar for myself. There's a lot of scripts that I read and think, "Oh, this is great, but I think there are 50 other directors who could bring this to the cinema."

  Francesca Gregorini

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

  Christian Bale

  Blue, Collars, Milieu

  Source: collider.com

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• The cinema is death at work.

  Jean Cocteau

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• I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Enthusiasm, Twenties

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

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• I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.

  Christoffer Boe

  Mistake, Thinking, Next Week

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• When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Opportunity, Trying, Asking

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• There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Baby, Nice, Moving

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• The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.

  Philip French

  Independent, Genre Is, Might

  "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.

  David Bennun

  Sleep, Land, Long

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• Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

  Peter Jacobson

  Space, Acting, Tone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.

  Marina Warner

  Ideas, Depth, Woven

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Fun, Watches, Entertainment

  Source: collider.com

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• Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Philosophy, Artistic, Areas

  Source: collider.com

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• Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's social statement. It is somewhat similar to the work of a journalist, just on a different level. This is the kind of cinema I enjoy.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Father, Essence, Documentaries

  Source: collider.com

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• I am very grateful that the Russian budget has a yearly budget for film. And usually this budget goes to "auteur" cinema, which actually needs this support and which indeed contributes to creating "national culture".

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Grateful, Creating, Support

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

  Scott Derrickson

  Art, Asian, Whole

  Source: collider.com

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• I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Brother, Party

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• ["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, Film, Rating

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

  Sonia Braga

  Memories, Blade Runner, Stand By Me

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

  Ewan McGregor

  Drama, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous red light district. Kino is obviously German and "film" and "cinema" and we were always cinematic in our thinking.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Light, Red

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

  Werner Herzog

  Print Media, Missing, Soldier

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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