Cinema Quotes - Page 5

• Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

  Ron Perlman

  Would Be, Ifs

  Source: variety.com

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• What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

  Agnes Repplier

  Taken, Has Beens, Left

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• Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

  Oliver Stone

  Independent, Choices, Forget

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• Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

  Sven Nykvist

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

  Conrad Hall

  Emotion, Metaphor, Evoke

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• I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible

  Julie Christie

  Looks, Faces, Used

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

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

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• Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Sad, Depression, Bored

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• My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nervous I was because I didn't know how my mom would react. She said, 'Can I be completely honest with you? I've seen your mom in interviews, and she seems pretty screwed up. I don't think there's much you could do to shock a broad like that.' And from that moment on it was big nipples to the wind!

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Stars, Thinking

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• I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Dark, Light, Shadow

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, College, Destiny

  "Dustin Hoffman at Play in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". Press Conference, movieweb.com. November 19, 2007.

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• Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

  Winona Ryder

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

  Tom Sizemore

  Juice, Action, Film

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, African American, Cameras

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• I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

  Charles Bronson

  Beer, Hands, Guy

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

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Life, Roles, Reason Why

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• Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

  Keanu Reeves

  Change, Grief, Grieving

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• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Artist, Greatness

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  All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2002.

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Movie, Giving, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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• As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

  Gene Wilder

  Movie, Goodbye, Farewell

  "Fictional character: Claude". "Start the Revolution Without Me", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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• I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Movie, I Miss You

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• Wake up! Time to die!

  Brion James

  Death, Badass, Blade Runner

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Blade Runner", 1982.

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• Be smart, but never show it.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Smart, Modesty, Stay Humble

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

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• The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

  Dennis Hopper

  Movie, Men, Mad

  "Fictional character: Photojournalist". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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