Cinema Quotes - Page 36

• Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Film, Affair, Made

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• Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Done, Film, Audience

  "Francis Ford Coppola: There Should Only Be One 'Godfather'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. December 3, 2012.

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• Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Doubt, Novelists, Want

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• Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

  David Cronenberg

  Culture, Want, Language

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  Park Chan-wook

  May, Way, Treats

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• In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Stupidity, Television, Film

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

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• I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Independent, Thinking, Trends

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• I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Girl, Mean, Good Friend

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• From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

  Roger Ebert

  Drama, Doctors, Viewpoints

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• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  Paloma Faith

  Way, Stage

  "Paloma Faith: Causing a stir". Interview with Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.

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• I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

  Julian Fellowes

  Film, Used

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• You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Trying, Committees, Wells

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2001.

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• There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

  Mark Haddon

  Cities, Oxford, Space

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• I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

  Michael Haneke

  Dream, Real, Trying

  "Michael Haneke: I try to get closer to reality, close to the contradictions". Interview with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, metro.co.uk. November 15, 2012.

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• Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feels

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• More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Actors, Want, Messages

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• Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

  David Lynch

  Falling In Love, Ideas, Sometimes

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

  David Lynch

  Photography, Different, Painting

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• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  Walter Murch

  Editing, Rooms, Film

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• The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Sight, Matter

  "Tacita Dean: Film". Book by Tacita Dean, Unilever series vol. 12, 2011.

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• While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Passion, Opposites

  "On Filmmaking: Werner Herzog". www.rowthree.com. November 15, 2008.

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• After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

  Harmony Korine

  Years, Birth, Film

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

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• Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Play, Skills

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

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• My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

  Sergio Leone

  Reading, Vices, Vice Versa

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• When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

  Sergio Leone

  Funny, Movie, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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