- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema Quotes
On watching, making, and loving film.
These lines move between influence and enjoyment - a filmmaker tracing his generation's debt to an earlier movement, and someone who just wants to tune out with a freaky horror film. See also Art.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never grew up on a staple diet of Hindi cinema. In fact, when I was a VJ, I was averse to it. Purely because I could never imagine myself being an actor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
- Incredibly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is incredibly concise.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did an HBO movie called 'Cinema Verite' where I played Candy Darling. That was really, really cool because I got to meet James Gandolfini and Diane Lane and Thomas Dekker.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020