- Loved
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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of permanent - inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out of the cinema having really laughed at this film which had been made 50 years before, I thought: That's immortality. It's fantastic.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
- Flipped
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film used to have to be niche and find its audience in a little art house cinema, and TV had to work for everybody. And now it's kind of flipped where there's so many platforms that TV can be incredibly niche.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked the idea of merging esoteric art cinema with down-and-dirty exploitation films.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020