#cinema

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#cinema #freud #i #like #marx

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#also #because #cinematic #confusing #difficult

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. ↗

— Michael Caine

#acting #actor #assure #cinema #covering

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. ↗

— Jane Campion

#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#good #lose #performance #put #too

I don't go to the cinema much. ↗

— Tom Felton

#go #i #much

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cinema #important #important role #play #role

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. ↗