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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean CocteauFilm - 2
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson WellesFilm - 3
A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.
Virginia WoolfFilm - 4
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel GoldwynFilm - 5
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
Camille PagliaFilm -
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred HitchcockFilm - 7
Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
Alfred HitchcockFilm - 8
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
Don DeLilloFilm - 9
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
Robert BressonFilm - 10
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred HitchcockFilm - 11
Hello, I Must Be Going
Groucho MarxFilm - 12
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
Orson WellesFilm - 13
I'll Be Back
Arnold SchwarzeneggerScience Fiction, Film, Movies - 14
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody AllenFilm - 15
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
Susan SontagFilm -
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will RogersFilm - 17
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Charlie ChaplinFilm - 18
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Robert BressonFilm - 19
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.
Andy WarholFilm - 20
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
Samuel GoldwynFilm - 21
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
Carl JungFilm - 22
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
Orson WellesFilm - 23
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
Raymond ChandlerFilm - 24
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.
Raymond ChandlerFilm - 25
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
H. L. MenckenFilm
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