Cinema Quotes - Page 4

• For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Long, Rhythm

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

  Patrice Leconte

  Should, Reviewers

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• I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Tunes, Favorites Things, Freak

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

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• You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

  Eric Cantona

  Performances, Ifs, Loses

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

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• I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

  Peter O'Toole

  Children, Theatre, Tvs

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• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Stories, Becoming

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• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cutting, Blood, Hands

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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  Patrice Leconte

  Affection, Feels, My Own

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• Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

  Sunny

  Today, Film, Made

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• I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Art, Struggle, Years

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

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• It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

  Conrad Hall

  Believe, Impact, Made

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• There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Views, Want, Audience

  "A Winterbottom's tale". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2004.

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• The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

  Ivor Novello

  Heart, Roots, People

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• One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

  Mike Figgis

  Things I Love, Range

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• Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Males, Western Culture

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

  Jean Renoir

  Men, Grace, Saving

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

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• I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

  Alexander Payne

  Cartoon, World, Want

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• American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Fairy Tale, Tales, International

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• To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Should, Spectacular, Percent

  "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

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• Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

  Peter Greenaway

  Narrative, Metaphor, Linear

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Would Be, Spirit

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• So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

  Hugh Mackay

  Fall, Games, Media

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• Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

  Peter Greenaway

  Rich, Mediums, Storyteller

  "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.

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• I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

  Natalie Portman

  Sacrifice, Important

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• We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

  Boris Spassky

  Theatre, Actors, Chess

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