Cinema Quotes
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My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
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I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.
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Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.
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I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
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Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner.” The entire plot of Before Sunrise is “Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna.” But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema...
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The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
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If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.
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Cinema is like dream.
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My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.
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Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.
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There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'
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I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
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This is not that time of a cinema where you get 10 to 15 chances. You only get two to three chances, and if you do something nice in that, then it is great. Otherwise, people are very unforgiving.
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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
