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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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"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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema."
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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."
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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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"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."
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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."
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"Heroism in a bad cause."
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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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"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"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."
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"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."
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