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Cinema Quotes
"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 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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"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."
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"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."
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"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
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"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."
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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 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."
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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 theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
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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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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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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."
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"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"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."
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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"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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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
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"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."
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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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"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."
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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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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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