Cinema Quote by Jeanine Basinger Download Open image “Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.” — Jeanine Basinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Magic Radio Ventriloquism
I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors. — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component. — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution. — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies. — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused.… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
“Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression,… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image