Cinema Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

— David Copperfield

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

— Ben Kingsley

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of…

— Logan Lerman

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and…

— Susanna Clarke

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show…

— Lance Burton

There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very…

— Alan Moore

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

— Jeanine Basinger

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at…

— J. J. Abrams

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

— Steve Carell

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if…

— Jon Turteltaub