“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
Cinema quotes
169 cinema quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“Film is too vast a medium for self-indulgence. It's a dangerous tool and you must be responsible when you use it.”
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“Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket, the least understood and the least noticed.”
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“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
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“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”
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“I don't necessarily like going to the movies.”
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“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
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“We are having problems relaunching cinema as a popular art.”
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“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”
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“The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.”
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“Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn't feel anywhere else in my life.”
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“Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.”
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“In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.”
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“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.”
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“Cinema is a mirror of reality and it is a filter.”
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“Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.”
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“Cinemascope places a director somewhere between the stage and the screen technique.”
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“They are doing things on the screen now that I wouldn't do in bed. If I could.”
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“There were giants in the industry. Now it is an era of midgets and conglomerates.”
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“The biggest disappointment about working in films is that once you realize it's all ridiculous, there's not that much to feel strongly about.”
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