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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."

Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian Director

Cinema, Difficulty, Example, Manipulation

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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."

Wim Wenders, German Director

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

Ben Kingsley, English Actor

Cinema, Leading

"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

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

Gerard Depardieu, French Actor

"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

Cinema, Emotions, Metaphors, Words

"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."

Andre Bazin, French Critic

"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

Cinema, Language, Silence, Theater

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

Jean-Luc Godard, French Director

Cinema, Fraud, World

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."

Karel Reisz, Czechoslovakian Director

"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."

Alexander Walker, American Businessman

Cinema, Europe, Hollywood, Now

"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

Cinema, Name, Years

"I don't go to the cinema much."

Tom Felton, English Actor

"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."

Marie Trintignant, French Actress

Cinema, Theatre

"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."

Karel Reisz, Czechoslovakian Director

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

Martin Scorsese, American Director

"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."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Cinema, Earth, Fantasy, Film

"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this."

Martin Scorsese, American Director

Cinema, Now, Talk, World

"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."

Andrew Lloyd Webber, British Composer

Cinema, Collaboration, Theatre

"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."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Cinema, Film, Horror, Nothing

"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."

Jack Valenti, American Businessman

Cinema, Help, Will

"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."

Martin Scorsese, American Director

Cinema, Artists

"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."

Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director

Cinema, Television, Theatre

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

Shahrukh Khan, Indian Actor

"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."

Peter Weir, Australian Director

Cinema, Feeling, Film, Hollywood

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

Roman Polanski, French Director

Cinema, Forget, Theater

"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."

Kenneth Branagh, Irish Actor

Cinema, Film, Want, Will

"The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses."

Kim Hunter, American Actress

Cinema, Film, Queen

"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

"I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Cinema, Writer, Writing

"Doing cinema is not about watching yourself."

Charlotte Rampling, French Actress

"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

Cinema, Now, Years

"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."

Antonia Fraser, British Author

"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."

John Hurt, British Actor

Cinema, Film, Mind, Theatre

"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Cinema, Country, World

"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."

Federico Fellini, Italian Director

Cinema, Dogs, Fleas, Old

"Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years."

Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director

Cinema, Reality, Theatre, Years

"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."

Crispin Glover, American Actor

Cinema, Film, Realism

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

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Cinema, Economy

"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

Cinema, Film, World

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

Sunny Deol, Indian Actor

"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."

Lars von Trier, Danish Director

Cinema, Thinking

"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."

Andrew Lloyd Webber, British Composer

Cinema, Difference, Question, Theatre

"Cinema was my rite of passage."

John Singleton, American Director

"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."

James Iha, American Musician

Cinema, Partnership

"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?"

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

Cinema, Crime, Games, Media

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