Quotes about Cinema

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Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver. — Kodak Eastman
To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to al — Pedro Almodóvar
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing — Robert Bresson
Known as “Leni,” Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902. During the Third Reich she was known thro — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise"
Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! — Derek Jarman, Dancing Ledge
Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are — Pedro Almodóvar
Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white. — Steven Millhauser, Little Kingdoms
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most — Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir
Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped. — Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out — Martin Scorsese
When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audi — Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station a — Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept — Crispin Hellion Glover
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous... — J. Michael Straczynski
In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itsel — Rutger Hauer
Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today) — Manny Pacheco
The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years ba — Ed McBain
[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe’s oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to t — Martin Scorsese
Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. — David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this c — Ross Macdonald, Archer in Hollywood: The Moving Target, The Way Some People Die, The Barbarous Coast