Auteurs Quote by Charlotte Rampling

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of…

— Arnaud Desplechin

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music,…

— Charlotte Rampling

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

— Agnes Varda

“Both are also examples of film noir, a postwar genre commonly understood (even to the point of cliché) as being aesthetically and ideologically driven…

— Sianne Ngai

“The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them.…

— Dan Gilroy

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music…

— Walter Murch

When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French…

— Charlotte Rampling

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

— Ray Manzarek

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means…

— Ivor Novello