81 quotes found
“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 more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado f...”
“To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.”
“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”
“I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy...”
“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”
“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 and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the ...”
“R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept that those under the age of 18 are able to view the film. This means all cor...”
“Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...”
“In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.”
“Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)”
“The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood bega...”
“When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part.Wha...”
“[Cinema] obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.”
“For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.”
“[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europes oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to the early 13th century. He might have appeared as a character in one of his own...”
“Hey, I got an idea, lets go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Lets go and experience the art of the cinema. Lets begin with the Scream Of Fear, and we a...”
“Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even whe...”
“In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.”
“The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse - it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to the medium's essential marriage of light and dark, or as Mary Pickford put it in ...”
“Cinema is a language. It can say thingsbig, abstract things. And I love that about it. Im not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But...”
