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"The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses."
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"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
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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."
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"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."
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"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."
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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
Famous
"When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material."
Heart
"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it."
Success
"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
Thought
"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."
Success
"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."
Education
"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
Being
"Art depends on luck and talent."
Art
"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
Cinema
"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
Self-Doubt
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