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"Cinema is closer to
allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
-Manuel Puig
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"I think cinema, movies,
and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
-Francis Ford Coppola
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"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
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"Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
-Dr. Seuss
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"The movies we love
and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
-Mary Schmich
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"Every great film
should seem new every time you see it."
-Roger Ebert
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"Cinema should make you forget
you are sitting in a theater."
-Roman Polanski
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"A film is- or should be-
more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
-Stanley Kubrick
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"I love making people laugh.
It’s an addiction and it’s probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there’s no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
- Jay Roach
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"Although for some people
cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
-Jeanne Moreau
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"The books [and movies]
that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-Oscar Wilde
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"Photography is truth.
Cinema is truth twenty-four frames per second.
-Jean-Luc Godard
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"Cinema is the most beautiful
fraud in the world."
-Jean-Luc Godard
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"I think audiences
get too comfortable and familiar in today’s movies. They believe everything they’re hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up."
-Christopher Nolan
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"A story should have
a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."
-Jean-Luc Godard
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"I never studied anything
about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both."
-Ralph Fiennes
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"No art passes our conscience
in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
- Ingmar Bergman
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"Film lovers
are sick people."
-Francois Truffaut
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"We are the movies
and the movies are us."
-David Ansen
Some quotes about movies and cinema that ring true for me.
(I tried to just use films I've seen or seen some of, sorry if I missed a film that would fit perfectly!)
Happy holidays :)
(I tried to just use films I've seen or seen some of, sorry if I missed a film that would fit perfectly!)
Happy holidays :)
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