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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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"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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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again."
God

"Fate is written in the face."
Fate

"Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets."
Money

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."
Life

"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
Film

"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."
Cinema

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
Art

"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
Film

"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?"
Chaos

"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
Work
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