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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."
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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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"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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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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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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"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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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."
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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."
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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."
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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
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"Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie."
Media
"In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years."
Nation
"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice."
Music
"On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world."
Change
"What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions."
Film
"Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul."
Soul
"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."
Change
"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings."
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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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"But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive."
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