Cinema Quotes - Page 9

• My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

  Roberto Benigni

  Laughing, Trying, Emotion

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

  Andy Lau

  Rocks, World, Hong Kong

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• Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

  Grace Kelly

  Like Love, Taught, And Love

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

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• Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Art, World, Today

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  If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

  Serge Daney

  Believe, Littles, Filmmaking

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• I am really not interested in the cinema.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Not Interested

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

  Syd Field

  Drama, Character, Stories

  Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.17, Delta

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• When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'

  Quentin Tarantino

  Views, Blood, America

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• In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

  Brian Cox

  Independent, Want, Way

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

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Ideas, Passionate, Film

  "'Montpensier' star Gaspard Ulliel on Scorsese, Stunts and Scars" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Form, Turns, Capitalism

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• In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.

  David Lynch

  Fun, People, Mind

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• Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Art, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the science runs ahead of the politics. Bioethics can alert people to something coming down the road, but it doesn't mean policy and politicians are going to pay attention. They tend to respond when there's an immediate crisis. The job of the ethicist, in some ways, is to warn or be prophetic. You can yell loudly, but you can't necessarily get everybody to leave the cinema, so to speak.

  Arthur Caplan

  Running, Jobs, Mean

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• Cinema is like dream.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Movie, Dream

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• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  Ed Murray

  Character, Views, Numbers

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• I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you experience them fully. It may be your own preordained prejudice where you can't experience them fully. But when you come out of the cinema having felt, thought, and experienced your way through two hours, that is a really cool thing.

  Colin Farrell

  Thinking, Two, Prejudice

  "Colin Farrell and William Monahan Talk LONDON BOULEVARD, Filmmaking, Favorite Actors and Directors and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.

  Emma Stone

  Moving, Character, Thinking

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• I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

  Bipasha Basu

  Demand, Oscars, Hollywood

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• When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.

  Jason Statham

  Different, Watches, Kind

  "Jason Statham Interview THE MECHANIC; Plus Updates on CRANK 3 and THE EXPENDABLES 2". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Moments, Abstract

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

  Sergio Leone

  Order, Issues, People

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• I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

  Julia Leigh

  Ideas, World, Wonder

  "Julia Leigh – Writer/Director of Sleeping Beauty". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

  Ali Suliman

  Dirty, Political, Parallels

  "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.

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