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Francis Ford Coppola

"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."

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"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."

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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

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"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."

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"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."

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"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."

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"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this."

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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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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."

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"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."

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