"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."

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"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."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

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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."

Michael Winterbottom, British Director

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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

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"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."

Kris Kidd, American Writer

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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

Gerard Depardieu, French Actor

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"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."

Shahrukh Khan, Indian Actor

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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."

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

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"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

Julie Christie, British Actress

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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."

Ismail Merchant, Indian Producer

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"Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism."

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"Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you."

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"Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more."

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