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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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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."

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."

"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."

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

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."

"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."

"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
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