Cinema Quotes
642 quotes by 403 authors
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Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.
— Anurag Kashyap
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It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world…
— Anurag Kashyap
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The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
— Anurag Kashyap
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There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.
— Anurag Kashyap
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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
— Werner Herzog
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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession…
— H.G. Wells
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I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence…
— Daniel Clowes
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After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the…
— Harmony Korine
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we…
— C.S. Lewis
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you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we…
— Elfriede Jelinek
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The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has…
— Andre Breton
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I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in…
— Francois Truffaut
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In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He…
— Steig Larsson
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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,…
— Martin Amis
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People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or…
— Sebastian Faulks
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One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
— C.S. Lewis
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The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go…
— Paulo Coelho
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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
— Margaret Thatcher
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Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.
— Jacques Derrida
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Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical…
— Richelle Mead
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