Film Quotes
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
― Alain de Botton
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
― Baz Luhrmann
tags: film, great-gatsby, script
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“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
tags: film, movies, nightmare, pleasure
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“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
― Ingmar Bergman
tags: art, dreaming, dreams, film, music, souls
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“Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl
tags: film, love-hurts
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“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
― Björk
tags: cinema, females, feminism, film, gender, men, movies, sexuality, women
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“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
tags: distraction, entertaining, film, life
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“When everything gets answered, it's fake.”
― Sean Penn
tags: celebrity, faith, film, god, magazines, movies, spirituality, truth
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“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
tags: architecture, art, dance, exaggeration, film
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“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
― Roger Ebert
tags: film, movies
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“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
― Werner Herzog
tags: academia, film, movies, passion, scholars, scholarship
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”
― Federico Fellini
tags: art, film, understanding
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“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
tags: creating, film, films-based-on-novels, novels, readers
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“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
― Martin Scorsese
tags: cinema, film, filmmaking, movies
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“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.”
― D.W. Griffith
tags: cinema, film, filmmaking, girl, girls, gun, guns, movies
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“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
tags: age, cheap, film, today
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“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others perhaps in this very theatre or in this city, surely in other theatres in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do. And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen. You do meet them, of course, and you know each other at once because you talk less about good movies than about what you love in bad movies.”
― Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
tags: film, films, loneliness, movies, society
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“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
― Stanley Kubrick
tags: director, film, stanley-kubrick, want, wanting
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“people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
tags: academy-award, academy-awards, film, movies, theater, theatre
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“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”
― Orson Welles
tags: beautiful, citizen-kane, compliment, film
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“I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
tags: climb, death, driving, film, life, living-to-the-fullest, no-regrets, swam
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“[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
tags: acting, benedict-cumberbatch, bilbo-baggins, film, humor, martin-freeman, movie, the-hobbit
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“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”
― Orson Welles
tags: film, genius, hollywood
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“The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
tags: actor, film, filming, war-horse
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“Observation is a dying art.”
― Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
tags: art, film, observation
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“I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
tags: cine, director, film, movies
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“Detik itu juga aku merasa seolah-olah jantungku diremas. Ah. Inilah sebabnya mengapa aku menyukai film dokumenter.Film dokumenter membuat aku sadar bahawa hidup ini nyata, bahwa dunia yang kutinggali ini tidak sempurna.”
― Windry Ramadhina, Montase
tags: documenter, film, life, reality
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“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
― Pauline Kael
― Chuck Palahniuk
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
― Alain de Botton
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
― Baz Luhrmann
tags: film, great-gatsby, script
296 likes
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“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
tags: film, movies, nightmare, pleasure
245 likes
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“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
― Ingmar Bergman
tags: art, dreaming, dreams, film, music, souls
219 likes
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“Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl
tags: film, love-hurts
189 likes
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“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
― Björk
tags: cinema, females, feminism, film, gender, men, movies, sexuality, women
183 likes
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“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
― Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
tags: distraction, entertaining, film, life
175 likes
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“When everything gets answered, it's fake.”
― Sean Penn
tags: celebrity, faith, film, god, magazines, movies, spirituality, truth
162 likes
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“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
tags: architecture, art, dance, exaggeration, film
154 likes
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“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
― Roger Ebert
tags: film, movies
132 likes
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“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
― Werner Herzog
tags: academia, film, movies, passion, scholars, scholarship
125 likes
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”
― Federico Fellini
tags: art, film, understanding
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“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
tags: creating, film, films-based-on-novels, novels, readers
103 likes
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“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
― Martin Scorsese
tags: cinema, film, filmmaking, movies
95 likes
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“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.”
― D.W. Griffith
tags: cinema, film, filmmaking, girl, girls, gun, guns, movies
95 likes
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“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
tags: age, cheap, film, today
74 likes
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“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others perhaps in this very theatre or in this city, surely in other theatres in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do. And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen. You do meet them, of course, and you know each other at once because you talk less about good movies than about what you love in bad movies.”
― Pauline Kael, For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
tags: film, films, loneliness, movies, society
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“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
― Stanley Kubrick
tags: director, film, stanley-kubrick, want, wanting
71 likes
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“people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
tags: academy-award, academy-awards, film, movies, theater, theatre
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“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”
― Orson Welles
tags: beautiful, citizen-kane, compliment, film
61 likes
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“I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
tags: climb, death, driving, film, life, living-to-the-fullest, no-regrets, swam
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“[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
tags: acting, benedict-cumberbatch, bilbo-baggins, film, humor, martin-freeman, movie, the-hobbit
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“Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.”
― Orson Welles
tags: film, genius, hollywood
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“The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.”
― Benedict Cumberbatch
tags: actor, film, filming, war-horse
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“Observation is a dying art.”
― Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
tags: art, film, observation
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“I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.”
― Alfred Hitchcock
tags: cine, director, film, movies
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“Detik itu juga aku merasa seolah-olah jantungku diremas. Ah. Inilah sebabnya mengapa aku menyukai film dokumenter.Film dokumenter membuat aku sadar bahawa hidup ini nyata, bahwa dunia yang kutinggali ini tidak sempurna.”
― Windry Ramadhina, Montase
tags: documenter, film, life, reality
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“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
― Pauline Kael
“It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.”
― Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
tags: film, letting-go, life, moving-on, rock, rut
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“Film lovers are sick people.”
― François Truffaut
tags: film, humor
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“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”
― Orson Welles
tags: cahier-du-cinema, film, god, movies, praying, presentation, realistic, screen, sex, translation
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“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”
― David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
tags: drama, film, writing
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“I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.”
― Rosie O'Donnell
tags: cameras, film, life, movies, photography
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“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”
― Orson Welles
tags: creating, discover, film, innocently, learn, pictures
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“I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much; my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude—for every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure; but don’t worry….you will someday.”
― Alan Ball, American Beauty: The Shooting Script
tags: alan-ball, american-beauty, film, film-script
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“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.”
― Werner Herzog
tags: celebrity, film, magazines, movies, reading, vulgarity
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“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
― William S. Burroughs
tags: film, films, hollywood
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“Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.”
― Satyajit Ray, The Bandits of Bombay
tags: fiction, film
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“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
tags: film
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“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”
― Derek Jarman, Dancing Ledge
tags: cinema, film, movies, shakespeare
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“Meet me in Montauk...”
― Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script
tags: film
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“It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.”
― David Gilmour
tags: art, film
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“The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
tags: film
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“We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
― Krzysztof Kieślowski
tags: film
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“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”
― Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh
tags: cinema, film, movies, rape
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“Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!”
― Abhijeet Sawant
tags: film, masterpiece, patience, photograph, photography, pics
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“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.”
― Harmony Korine
tags: film
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“Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.”
― Martha Grimes, Dust
tags: all-about-eve, celebrity, film, hollywood, movies, power
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“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.
What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
tags: cinema, film
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“Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.”
― Robert Rodríguez, Rebel Without a Crew: Or, How a 23-year-old Film Maker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
tags: film, humor, movies
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“Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.”
― Rebecca McNutt
tags: art, artificial, camera, celluloid, collapse, disturing, enigma, fake, family, film, flash, happy, instamatic,kodachrome, kodak, kodak-moment, lens, lie, memory, mystery, nikon, nostalgia, photo, photography, sad,scary, see-through, trapped, wall, zoom
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“I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.”
― Peter Greenaway
tags: film, filmmaking
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“Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
tags: film, piercing
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“Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album
tags: critic, criticism, film, movie, reviewers
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“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
― Stanley Kubrick
tags: cinematography, critical-thinking, discipline, film, film-making, films, impulsive, inspirational, logic,movie, movies, patience, thought, wait, waiting
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“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”
― Iain Banks
tags: film, writing
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“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 conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?”
― Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
tags: cinema, conquest-of-the-useless, film, fitzcarraldo, movie, werner-herzog
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“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 corporately funded films in the US are made for the eyes of children.”
― Crispin Hellion Glover
― Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
tags: film, letting-go, life, moving-on, rock, rut
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“Film lovers are sick people.”
― François Truffaut
tags: film, humor
83 likes
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“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”
― Orson Welles
tags: cahier-du-cinema, film, god, movies, praying, presentation, realistic, screen, sex, translation
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“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?”
― David Mamet, Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
tags: drama, film, writing
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“I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.”
― Rosie O'Donnell
tags: cameras, film, life, movies, photography
50 likes
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“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”
― Orson Welles
tags: creating, discover, film, innocently, learn, pictures
48 likes
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“I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much; my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude—for every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure; but don’t worry….you will someday.”
― Alan Ball, American Beauty: The Shooting Script
tags: alan-ball, american-beauty, film, film-script
47 likes
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“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.”
― Werner Herzog
tags: celebrity, film, magazines, movies, reading, vulgarity
40 likes
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“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
― William S. Burroughs
tags: film, films, hollywood
38 likes
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“Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.”
― Satyajit Ray, The Bandits of Bombay
tags: fiction, film
38 likes
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“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
tags: film
38 likes
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“Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”
― Derek Jarman, Dancing Ledge
tags: cinema, film, movies, shakespeare
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“Meet me in Montauk...”
― Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script
tags: film
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“It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.”
― David Gilmour
tags: art, film
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“The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
tags: film
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“We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
― Krzysztof Kieślowski
tags: film
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“Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.”
― Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh
tags: cinema, film, movies, rape
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“Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!”
― Abhijeet Sawant
tags: film, masterpiece, patience, photograph, photography, pics
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“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.”
― Harmony Korine
tags: film
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“Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.”
― Martha Grimes, Dust
tags: all-about-eve, celebrity, film, hollywood, movies, power
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“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.
What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
tags: cinema, film
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“Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.”
― Robert Rodríguez, Rebel Without a Crew: Or, How a 23-year-old Film Maker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
tags: film, humor, movies
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“Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.”
― Rebecca McNutt
tags: art, artificial, camera, celluloid, collapse, disturing, enigma, fake, family, film, flash, happy, instamatic,kodachrome, kodak, kodak-moment, lens, lie, memory, mystery, nikon, nostalgia, photo, photography, sad,scary, see-through, trapped, wall, zoom
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“I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.”
― Peter Greenaway
tags: film, filmmaking
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“Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
tags: film, piercing
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“Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album
tags: critic, criticism, film, movie, reviewers
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“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
― Stanley Kubrick
tags: cinematography, critical-thinking, discipline, film, film-making, films, impulsive, inspirational, logic,movie, movies, patience, thought, wait, waiting
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“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”
― Iain Banks
tags: film, writing
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“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 conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?”
― Werner Herzog, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
tags: cinema, conquest-of-the-useless, film, fitzcarraldo, movie, werner-herzog
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“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 corporately funded films in the US are made for the eyes of children.”
― Crispin Hellion Glover
“In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He's found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged and distinctive and menacing about their work and homogenize it, churn it until it's smooth and cool and hygienic enough for mass consumption. Reservoir Dogs, for example, with its comically banal lunch chatter, creepily otiose code names, and intrusive soundtrack of campy pop from decades past, is a Lynch movie made commercial, i.e., fast, linear, and with what was idiosyncratically surreal now made fashionably (i.e., "hiply") surreal [...] D. Lynch is an exponentially better filmmaker than Q. Tarantino. For, unlike Tarantino, D. Lynch knows that an act of violence in an American film has, through repetition and desensitization, lost the ability to refer to anything but itself. A better way to put what I just tried to say: Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.”
― David Foster Wallace
tags: commercialism, david-foster-wallace, david-lynch, film, muzak, quentin-tarantino, violence
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“I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”
― Bruce Springsteen
tags: art, feelings, film, music
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“I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depressed, and do all those things you did?' I said, 'I wanted this girl and she left me.'
And he said,'Well, we have to look into that.'
And I said, 'There's nothing to look into! I wanted her and she left me.' And he said, 'Well, why are you feeling so intense?'
And I said, 'Cause I want the girl!' And he said, 'What's underneath it?' And I said, 'Nothing!'
He said, 'I'll have to give you medication.'
I said, 'I don't want medication! I want the girl!'
And he said, 'We have to work this through.'
So, I took a fire extinguisher from the casement and struck him across the back of his neck. And before I knew it, guys from Con Ed had jumper cables in my head and the rest was...”
― Woody Allen
tags: anything-else, film, funny, humor
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“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”
― Jean-Luc Godard
tags: film
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“If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
tags: film
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“Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.”
― Rainer Werner Fassbinder
tags: film, hope, women
15 likes
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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
― Jean-Luc Godard
tags: film, philosophy
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“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: black-and-white, film, frank-lentricchia, past, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...”
― J. Michael Straczynski
tags: cinema, film, motion-pictures, movies
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“Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.”
― Roger Ebert
tags: art, audiences, beauty, cinema, experience, film, francois-truffaut, gene-siskel, joy, movies, projector,screen
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“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.”
― John Cassavetes, Cassavetes on Cassavetes
tags: film, filmmaking, humanity
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“No one can be the total cure for another person.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: cure, film, frank-lentricchia, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, mystery
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“Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?”
― Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974
tags: film, page-39, travel, walking
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“No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.”
― Roger Ebert
tags: film, movies
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“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.”
― Jean Renoir
tags: film
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“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, michelangeo-antonioni
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“AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn't particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victims' various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. A recent homicide in Boston, in which the deacon of a South Shore church reportedly gave chase to a vehicle that bad cut him off, forced the car off the road, and shot the driver with a highpowered crossbow, was borderline Lynchian. A Rotary luncheon where everybody's got a comb-over and a polyester sport coat and is eating bland Rotarian chicken and exchanging Republican platitudes with heartfelt sincerity and yet all are either amputees or neurologically damaged or both would be more Lynchian than not.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
tags: david-lynch, film, humor, humorous, lynchian, media
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“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.”
― Rutger Hauer
tags: cinema, film
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“I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba'ath Party central committee: perhaps a hundred men. Suddenly the doors are locked and Saddam, in the chair, announces a special session. Into the room is dragged an obviously broken man, who begins to emit a robotic confession of treason and subversion, that he sobs has been instigated by Syrian and other agents. As the (literally) extorted confession unfolds, names begin to be named. Once a fellow-conspirator is identified, guards come to his seat and haul him from the room. The reclining Saddam, meanwhile, lights a large cigar and contentedly scans his dossiers. The sickness of fear in the room is such that men begin to crack up and weep, rising to their feet to shout hysterical praise, even love, for the leader. Inexorably, though, the cull continues, and faces and bodies go slack as their owners are pinioned and led away. When it is over, about half the committee members are left, moaning with relief and heaving with ardent love for the boss. (In an accompanying sequel, which I have not seen, they were apparently required to go into the yard outside and shoot the other half, thus sealing the pact with Saddam. I am not sure that even Beria or Himmler would have had the nerve and ingenuity and cruelty to come up with that.)”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
tags: ba-ath-party, ba-athism, ba-athist-iraq, beria, conspiracy, cull, dictatorship, execution, film, himmler,saddam-hussein, syria, torture
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“No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense.”
― Siegfried Kracauer
tags: film, humorous
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“There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.”
― Sara Sheridan
tags: art, familiarity, film, location, painting, photograph, places
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“That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".”
― David Gilmour
tags: david-gilmour, edward-james-olmos, film, miami-vice, movies
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“In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and volunteer in our communities, as well as the future of our wildlands and wildlife. If the stories they create are misleading or false in some way, viewers will misunderstand the issues and react in inappropriate ways. People who consume a heavy diet of wildlife films filled with staged violence and aggression, for example, are likely to think about nature as a circus or a freak show. They certainly won’t form the same positive connections to the natural world as people who watch more thoughtful, authentic, and conservation-oriented films.”
― Chris Palmer, Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom
tags: animals, conservation, film, television, tv, wildlife
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“Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy.”
― John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8
tags: butterfield-8, destroyer, film, heel
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“You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.”
― Gene Siskel
tags: afi, citizen-kane, film
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“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”
― Brigid Pasulka, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
tags: film, history, life
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“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, michelangeo-antonioni, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.”
― Edward McPherson, Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
tags: buster, film, human, humor, keaton, movies
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“Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)”
― Manny Pacheco
― David Foster Wallace
tags: commercialism, david-foster-wallace, david-lynch, film, muzak, quentin-tarantino, violence
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“I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”
― Bruce Springsteen
tags: art, feelings, film, music
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“I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depressed, and do all those things you did?' I said, 'I wanted this girl and she left me.'
And he said,'Well, we have to look into that.'
And I said, 'There's nothing to look into! I wanted her and she left me.' And he said, 'Well, why are you feeling so intense?'
And I said, 'Cause I want the girl!' And he said, 'What's underneath it?' And I said, 'Nothing!'
He said, 'I'll have to give you medication.'
I said, 'I don't want medication! I want the girl!'
And he said, 'We have to work this through.'
So, I took a fire extinguisher from the casement and struck him across the back of his neck. And before I knew it, guys from Con Ed had jumper cables in my head and the rest was...”
― Woody Allen
tags: anything-else, film, funny, humor
19 likes
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“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”
― Jean-Luc Godard
tags: film
19 likes
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“If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
tags: film
15 likes
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“Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.”
― Rainer Werner Fassbinder
tags: film, hope, women
15 likes
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“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
― Jean-Luc Godard
tags: film, philosophy
15 likes
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“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: black-and-white, film, frank-lentricchia, past, the-sadness-of-antonioni
14 likes
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“Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...”
― J. Michael Straczynski
tags: cinema, film, motion-pictures, movies
13 likes
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“Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.”
― Roger Ebert
tags: art, audiences, beauty, cinema, experience, film, francois-truffaut, gene-siskel, joy, movies, projector,screen
12 likes
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“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.”
― John Cassavetes, Cassavetes on Cassavetes
tags: film, filmmaking, humanity
12 likes
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“No one can be the total cure for another person.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: cure, film, frank-lentricchia, the-sadness-of-antonioni
11 likes
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“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, mystery
11 likes
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“Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this?”
― Werner Herzog, Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974
tags: film, page-39, travel, walking
10 likes
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“No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.”
― Roger Ebert
tags: film, movies
9 likes
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“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.”
― Jean Renoir
tags: film
9 likes
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“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, michelangeo-antonioni
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“AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn't particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victims' various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. A recent homicide in Boston, in which the deacon of a South Shore church reportedly gave chase to a vehicle that bad cut him off, forced the car off the road, and shot the driver with a highpowered crossbow, was borderline Lynchian. A Rotary luncheon where everybody's got a comb-over and a polyester sport coat and is eating bland Rotarian chicken and exchanging Republican platitudes with heartfelt sincerity and yet all are either amputees or neurologically damaged or both would be more Lynchian than not.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
tags: david-lynch, film, humor, humorous, lynchian, media
8 likes
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“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.”
― Rutger Hauer
tags: cinema, film
8 likes
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“I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba'ath Party central committee: perhaps a hundred men. Suddenly the doors are locked and Saddam, in the chair, announces a special session. Into the room is dragged an obviously broken man, who begins to emit a robotic confession of treason and subversion, that he sobs has been instigated by Syrian and other agents. As the (literally) extorted confession unfolds, names begin to be named. Once a fellow-conspirator is identified, guards come to his seat and haul him from the room. The reclining Saddam, meanwhile, lights a large cigar and contentedly scans his dossiers. The sickness of fear in the room is such that men begin to crack up and weep, rising to their feet to shout hysterical praise, even love, for the leader. Inexorably, though, the cull continues, and faces and bodies go slack as their owners are pinioned and led away. When it is over, about half the committee members are left, moaning with relief and heaving with ardent love for the boss. (In an accompanying sequel, which I have not seen, they were apparently required to go into the yard outside and shoot the other half, thus sealing the pact with Saddam. I am not sure that even Beria or Himmler would have had the nerve and ingenuity and cruelty to come up with that.)”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
tags: ba-ath-party, ba-athism, ba-athist-iraq, beria, conspiracy, cull, dictatorship, execution, film, himmler,saddam-hussein, syria, torture
7 likes
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“No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense.”
― Siegfried Kracauer
tags: film, humorous
7 likes
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“There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.”
― Sara Sheridan
tags: art, familiarity, film, location, painting, photograph, places
6 likes
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“That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".”
― David Gilmour
tags: david-gilmour, edward-james-olmos, film, miami-vice, movies
6 likes
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“In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and volunteer in our communities, as well as the future of our wildlands and wildlife. If the stories they create are misleading or false in some way, viewers will misunderstand the issues and react in inappropriate ways. People who consume a heavy diet of wildlife films filled with staged violence and aggression, for example, are likely to think about nature as a circus or a freak show. They certainly won’t form the same positive connections to the natural world as people who watch more thoughtful, authentic, and conservation-oriented films.”
― Chris Palmer, Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom
tags: animals, conservation, film, television, tv, wildlife
5 likes
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“Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy.”
― John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8
tags: butterfield-8, destroyer, film, heel
5 likes
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“You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.”
― Gene Siskel
tags: afi, citizen-kane, film
5 likes
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“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”
― Brigid Pasulka, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
tags: film, history, life
4 likes
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“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot imaginable. Forgetting the dead, whom all of history tells us we must remember. But what makes movies themselves, rather than novels or plays, is something else. What is it if not the film medium itself? The purity of the visual, which lies in the silence of the stilled image. The freeze frame. The deeply, deeply silent image. Like death. The image in itself in its silent purity reaches--it reaches!--for the purity of death.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, michelangeo-antonioni, the-sadness-of-antonioni
4 likes
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“It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.”
― Edward McPherson, Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
tags: buster, film, human, humor, keaton, movies
4 likes
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“Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)”
― Manny Pacheco
“I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
tags: film, funny-but-true, old
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“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”
― Robert Bresson
tags: film, filmmaking, impatience
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“The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]”
― Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog
tags: film
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“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, the-sadness-of-antonioni, wanting
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“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...”
― Jean-Pierre Melville
tags: bushido, film, samurai, solitude, warrior
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“Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.”
― Bob Hope, The Road to Hollywood: My 40-Year Love Affair with the Movies
tags: art, film, hollywood, humour, puns
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“When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.”
― Isabella Rossellini, Some of Me
tags: blue-velvet, butcher-shop, film, nudity
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“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”
― Harmony Korine
tags: film
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“Only the past is real.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, past, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.”
― Harmony Korine
tags: art, film, wagner
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“Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.”
― Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels
tags: educational, film, world
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“I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: death, film, frank-lentricchia, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“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 began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.”
― Ed McBain
tags: cinema, film, hard-boiled
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“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”
― Doug Peacock, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
tags: film, nature, wildlife
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“It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.”
― Richard Linklater
tags: film
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“...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.”
― Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Film Writings, 1965-1967
tags: film
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“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”
― Fredric Jameson
tags: film, hitchcock, theory, unconscious, zizek
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“Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.”
― Robert Altman, Robert Altman: Interviews
tags: film, robert-altman
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“Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")”
― David J. Schow, Seeing Red
tags: consumerism, film, photographs, spectacle, stardom, supermodel, vampire
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“To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender.”
― John Duigan
tags: film
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“Down the steps,
...over the corpses,
...careers the pram with the child.”
― Sergei Eisenstein, The Battleship Potemkin
tags: film
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“When it comes to the selections, I heard several observers claim that the Academy was embracing “nostalgia” by honoringThe Artist and Hugo. Give me a break! Hugo represents cutting-edge storytelling by a world-class director—in 3-D, no less. The Artist dares to revisit a form of cinema that was abandoned in the late 1920s. The Academy members admired these films for making the past seem immediate and relevant. That has nothing to do with nostalgia; it has everything to do with great moviemaking, which is what the Academy Awards are all about.”
― Leonard Maltin
tags: 2012-academy-awards, blog-article, cinema, film, oscars, silent-cinema, silent-film
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“The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.”
― Aki Kaurismäki
tags: film
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“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, realism, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny — not to mention vulnerable — minority. Am I dead inside because I didn’t experience the torrent of emotions I’ve been reading about? Am I as emotionally crippled as Ennis because I didn’t blub and hug after sitting through this ‘visceral’ movie, but instead wanted to go and ‘help with the roundup’?”
― Mark Simpson
tags: brokeback-mountain, film, masculinity, men
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“After all there isn't way out, there isn't security.
(Film Hidden)”
― Deyth Banger
tags: film, out, security, way
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“After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015)”
― Deyth Banger
tags: dangerous, film, place
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“(The Purge)... We are not stupid...”
― Deyth Banger
tags: film, stupid, we
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“After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.
(Red 2008 Film)”
― Deyth Banger
tags: amazing, awesome, book, dog, film, novel, red
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“People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not what horror is about. The horror genre teaches us that sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, but that hope always prevails in even the darkest of situations. That's a very important lesson, no matter how frightening you think the teacher is, and to be in the top of her class, all you need to do is to go in with an open mind.”
― Rebecca McNutt
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
tags: film, funny-but-true, old
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“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”
― Robert Bresson
tags: film, filmmaking, impatience
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“The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]”
― Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog
tags: film
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“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, the-sadness-of-antonioni, wanting
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“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...”
― Jean-Pierre Melville
tags: bushido, film, samurai, solitude, warrior
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“Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.”
― Bob Hope, The Road to Hollywood: My 40-Year Love Affair with the Movies
tags: art, film, hollywood, humour, puns
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“When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.”
― Isabella Rossellini, Some of Me
tags: blue-velvet, butcher-shop, film, nudity
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“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”
― Harmony Korine
tags: film
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“Only the past is real.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, past, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.”
― Harmony Korine
tags: art, film, wagner
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“Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.”
― Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels
tags: educational, film, world
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“I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: death, film, frank-lentricchia, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“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 began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.”
― Ed McBain
tags: cinema, film, hard-boiled
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“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”
― Doug Peacock, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
tags: film, nature, wildlife
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“It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.”
― Richard Linklater
tags: film
4 likes
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“...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.”
― Pauline Kael, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Film Writings, 1965-1967
tags: film
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“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”
― Fredric Jameson
tags: film, hitchcock, theory, unconscious, zizek
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“Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.”
― Robert Altman, Robert Altman: Interviews
tags: film, robert-altman
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“Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another tiny molecule of me, stolen away to feed an audience that is *never* satiated. And when someone is fully consumed - vampirized - they move on, still hungry, to pick their next victim by making him or her a star. That's why they're called consumers. ("Red Light")”
― David J. Schow, Seeing Red
tags: consumerism, film, photographs, spectacle, stardom, supermodel, vampire
4 likes
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“To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender.”
― John Duigan
tags: film
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“Down the steps,
...over the corpses,
...careers the pram with the child.”
― Sergei Eisenstein, The Battleship Potemkin
tags: film
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“When it comes to the selections, I heard several observers claim that the Academy was embracing “nostalgia” by honoringThe Artist and Hugo. Give me a break! Hugo represents cutting-edge storytelling by a world-class director—in 3-D, no less. The Artist dares to revisit a form of cinema that was abandoned in the late 1920s. The Academy members admired these films for making the past seem immediate and relevant. That has nothing to do with nostalgia; it has everything to do with great moviemaking, which is what the Academy Awards are all about.”
― Leonard Maltin
tags: 2012-academy-awards, blog-article, cinema, film, oscars, silent-cinema, silent-film
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“The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.”
― Aki Kaurismäki
tags: film
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“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
tags: film, frank-lentricchia, realism, the-sadness-of-antonioni
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“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny — not to mention vulnerable — minority. Am I dead inside because I didn’t experience the torrent of emotions I’ve been reading about? Am I as emotionally crippled as Ennis because I didn’t blub and hug after sitting through this ‘visceral’ movie, but instead wanted to go and ‘help with the roundup’?”
― Mark Simpson
tags: brokeback-mountain, film, masculinity, men
0 likes
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“After all there isn't way out, there isn't security.
(Film Hidden)”
― Deyth Banger
tags: film, out, security, way
0 likes
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“After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015)”
― Deyth Banger
tags: dangerous, film, place
0 likes
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“(The Purge)... We are not stupid...”
― Deyth Banger
tags: film, stupid, we
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“After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.
(Red 2008 Film)”
― Deyth Banger
tags: amazing, awesome, book, dog, film, novel, red
0 likes
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“People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not what horror is about. The horror genre teaches us that sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, but that hope always prevails in even the darkest of situations. That's a very important lesson, no matter how frightening you think the teacher is, and to be in the top of her class, all you need to do is to go in with an open mind.”
― Rebecca McNutt