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Cinema

«American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international»
Author: Bernard Tavernier | About: Cinema | Keywords: cinema, International, tales
«Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.»
«Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.»
Author: Jean-Luc Godard | About: Cinema | Keywords: cinema, fraud
«I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one»
Author: Katharine Whitehorn | About: Cinema
«Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses»
«Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.»
«Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.»
Author: Federico Fellini (Film Director) | About: Cinema | Keywords: cinema, circus, fleas, whore
«I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.»
«I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.»
Author: Kate Winslet (Actress) | About: Cinema, Theater | Keywords: British, roles
«Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.»
Author: Jim Morrison (Poet, Singer) | About: Cinema

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