“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage.”
Cinema quotes
156 cinema quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.”
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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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“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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“The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.”
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“Cinema is the director's medium. It is written even less than it is acted, but it is primarily the director's medium.”
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“If you can't make a career out of two de Milles, you'll never do it.”
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“I'm a professional. I've done pretty well, don't you think? I've survived in a pretty rough business.”
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“What the star-system represents is a typical sickness in our society — competition, competition success-oriented.”
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“The MGM lot is the Baghdad of filmdom.”
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“I'll tell you about those men. They were monsters and pirates and bastards right down to the bottom of their feet, but they loved movies. They loved making movies, they loved seeing movies and they protected the people who worked for them. Some of the jerks running the business now don't even have faces.”
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