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

"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."

"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."

"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."

"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."

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