#cinema

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#adult #appeared #audience #audiences #cinemas

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#both #cinema #cinemas #course #disillusioned

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks. ↗

— Martin Gore

#cinematic #film #got #into #music

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#dialogue #i #i love #i think #lot

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art form #because #cinema #clear #difficult

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#answer #answers #appear #cinema #different

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#compared #i #i think #long #long time