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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years."
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"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."
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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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"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."
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"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."
Body
"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."
Art
"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."
Question
"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie."
Love
"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."
Money
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."
Cinema
"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."
Beauty
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
Beginning
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
Truth
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