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

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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

Cinema, Film, Queen

"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Cinema, Film, Expectation, Storytelling, Art

"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

Cinema, Collaboration, Theatre

"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."

Andrew Lloyd Webber, British Composer

Cinema, Difference, Question, Theatre

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

Crispin Glover, American Actor

Cinema, Film, Realism

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

Gerard Depardieu, French Actor

Cinema, Woman

"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

Alexander Walker, American Businessman

Cinema, Europe, Hollywood, Now

"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

Julie Christie, British Actress

Cinema,

"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."

Sunny Deol, Indian Actor

Cinema, Today

"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."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Cinema, Oppression, Fear, Film, Truth

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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."

Conformity

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."

Cinema

"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."

Money

"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."

Film

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

Expression

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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."

"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."

"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."

"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."

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

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."

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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."

"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."

"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger."

"Heroism in a bad cause."

"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."

"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."

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

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