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

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

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

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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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My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

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

— Antoine Fuqua

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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

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It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way. ↗

— Ben Gazzara

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I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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