Cinema Quotes
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An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here Rome with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "
Sergio Leone -
Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience.
Sunidhi Chauhan
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I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.
Rachel Morrison -
Politics is like bad cinema — people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’
Volodymyr Zelensky -
Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.
Reggie Lee -
Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.
Anna Biller -
It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.
Sergio Leone -
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
Bertrand Tavernier
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I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
Anne Fontaine -
If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo -
When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
Mike Leigh -
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
Sergei Eisenstein -
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
Nicole Kidman
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What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is really made for men, how can you create cinema that's for women without having it be relegated to a ghetto of "chick flick" or something like that?
Anna Biller -
I'd like to be part of out-of-the-box films like 'Shahid.' I see myself being part of realistic cinema.
Rithvik Dhanjani -
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.
David Shapiro -
Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
Michael Morpurgo -
So what'll happen is there'll be some very good cinema experiences are going to see 3D where you have to pay more. And there'll be some bad experiences of going to see movies in 3D. And I just hope that this kind of gold rush mentality doesn't kill what could actually be something that really, really benefits the industry.
Neal H. Moritz
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I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
I really want to be able to work in cinema. So one of my long-term goals is to score films. I think probably horror – because that’s my favourite genre.
Bright Light Bright Light -
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
Claude Lelouch