Cinema Quotes - Page 38

• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  Keira Knightley

  Opposites, Trying, Today

  Allure magazine, October 2007.

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• But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

  Franz von Papen

  People, Stressed, Radio

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 30, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!

  Mallika Sherawat

  Drug, Desire, World

  Cine Blitz magazine, www.imdb.com. May 2006.

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• The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Lying, Possibility, Danger

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

  Steven Spielberg

  Giving, Wish, His Love

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• My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

  Bruno Dumont

  Life Is

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• I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

  Paul Schrader

  Thinking, Directors, Legacy

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• To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'

  Quentin Crisp

  Drinking, Names, Voice

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Sports, Sex

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• A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

  Kevin Myers

  Hollywood, Mutation, Popcorn

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• There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Numbers, People, Musical

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.

  Kristanna Loken

  Jobs, Creative, Looks

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• The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feels

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• Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

  Lea Seydoux

  Culture, Fundamentals, Literature

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• I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

  Freida Pinto

  Song, Reality, Thinking

  "Frieda Pinto Calls Bollywood Mindless!" by bollyspice.com, November 26, 2010.

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• Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Car, Looks

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• I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.

  Paul Simonon

  School, Baths, Used

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• I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.

  Simon Boswell

  Girlfriend, People, Scary

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• It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.

  Fernando Perez

  Humorous, Comedy, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.

  Zach Condon

  Thinking, Way, Inspired

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• I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

  Michael Caine

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Believe, Simple, People

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• Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Dream, Magic

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• There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

  Nick Frost

  Differences, Pieces, Film

  "IGN Interviews Nick Frost". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 25, 2005.

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Done

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