#cinema

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

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My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. ↗

— Woody Allen

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If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic. ↗

— Christine Baranski

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Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio. ↗

— Jeanine Basinger

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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema. ↗

— Sunny Deol

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If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

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