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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."

"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."

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."

"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."

"What made a movie buff different from others was the amount of freakish details they chose to fill their heads with. The typical movie-goer remembered the big lines, the ones that you could find on the film's shirts and posters. Just a bunch of tag-lines used for promotion. A true movie buff memorized the odd ones that said more about the story's theme or characters. A true buff read up on the movie's history."

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

"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
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"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."

"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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