#cinema

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. ↗

— James Broughton

#sharpened #theater #verse #work

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cinema #different #language #movie #prose

So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, "Outta light, guys" - and that was it. ↗

— Joel Schumacher

#around #break #cinematographer #day #food

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. ↗

— Peter Weir

#cinema #cycles #feeling #film #flagging

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way. ↗

— Alex Winter

#cinema #classical #dialogue #i #interesting

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are. - Agrado from "Todo Sobre Mi Madre ↗

— Pedro Almodóvar

#film #lgbt #lgbtqia #spanish #transgender

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.) ↗

— Martin Amis

#crying #films #movies #poignancy #experience

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped. ↗

— Luis Buñuel

#film #movies #rape #movies

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 Mar After watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#movies #movies

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance. ↗

— Jerry White

#film #japan #movies #movies