81 quotes found
“That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy."Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things."But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -...”
“I wouldnt be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.”
“Often interfaces are assumed to be synonymous with media itself. But what would it mean to say that interface and media are two names for the same thing? The answer is found in the remediation or l...”
“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
“There either is or is not, thats the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes its red. But...”
“...were not even really hiking,more like meandering in cinematic light.”
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
“I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.”
“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.”
“MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumpi...”
“Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement that i...”
“But this is the ultimate contradiction of cinema. It's a medium BORN of technology, AFRAID of technology and evolving towards the future BECAUSE OF technology.”
“Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.”
“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking.' When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when ...”
“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are,...”
“Cinema all art really has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre....”
“The cinema is an invention without any future.”
“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.”
“To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To ...”
“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”
