"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."

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"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."

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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."

Kim Hunter, American Actress

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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."

Federico Fellini, Italian Director

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"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."

Andrew Lloyd Webber, British Composer

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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."

Peter Weir, Australian Director

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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."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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."

Jack Valenti, American Businessman

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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."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

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"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."

Andre Bazin, French Critic

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"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."

Crispin Glover, American Actor

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"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."

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"When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer."

Music, Film, Musicians

"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."

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"The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that."

Music, Power, Harmony, Sound

"Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success."

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"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."

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"Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days."

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"I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient."

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"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

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