- 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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.
- Empire State
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- Nov 07, 2020
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
- Gold Standard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
- Pink
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020