81 quotes found
“Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. Its so formulaic and unsur...”
“Her first really great role, the one that cemented the Jean Arthur character, was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capras Mr. Deeds G...”
“Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I ...”
“Stahl trailed him upstairs, across a mezzanine, and out into the darkness of the sloping balcony. Tom gave the aisle his torch so his guest could see. On the screen below a woman's head was waverin...”
“I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our...”
“For the casual viewer, Kurosawas films can be an exercise in endurance.”
“We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.”
“How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & t...”
“Moving provides meaning for our humble (if still vicious) life of four-dimensional existence. Four-dimensional existence makes the frightening fox hunt into an entertainment, or war into a pastime ...”
“Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn't quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and the dead. H...”
“Filmmaking isnt if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what its ...”
“Its hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.”
“Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.”
“@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.”
“In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly ...”
“The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the...”
“My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.”
“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 -...”
“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
“I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.”
