#cinema

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing. ↗

— Karel Reisz

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I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema . ↗

— Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out. ↗

— Henry Thomas

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But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. ↗

— Michael Winterbottom

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