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"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
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"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."
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"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."
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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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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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"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."
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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
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"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
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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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"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."
Money

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."
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"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."
Cinema

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
Truth
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