Cinema Quotes
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'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.
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I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
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Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.
Nick Willing -
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.
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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.
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I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
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'Baahubali' was really the film that broke most barriers of what regional cinema can do nationally.
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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
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I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.
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I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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We see many posters and standees at cinema halls, and some catch attention. But these posters are soon forgotten. Taking a picture with the actors, enabled by AR, helps record a memory.
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Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.
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Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
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Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.
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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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I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
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As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.
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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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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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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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I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York.
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I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
