cinema

In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.

Cinema is a language. It can say things__ig, abstract things. And I love that about it. I__ not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you__e got time and sequences. You__e got dialogue. You__e got music. You__e got sound effects. You have so many tools. And you can express a feeling and a thought that can__ be conveyed any other way. Its a magical medium. For me, it__ so beautiful to think about these pictures and sounds flowing together in time and in sequence, making something that can be done only through cinema. Its not just words or music-it__ a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn__ exist before. It__ telling stories. It__ devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film. When I catch an idea for a film, I fall in love with the way cinema can express it. I like a story that holds abstractions, and that__ what cinema can do.

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I could see now that provided that I remained fit, the future held many more deaths yet. I could only hope that they would serve some purpose, and that perhaps a reputation may come in the same way as a coral formation, which is made up of a deposit of countless tiny corpses.

Hey, I got an idea, let__ go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let__ go and experience the art of the cinema. Let__ begin with the Scream Of Fear, and we are going to haunt us for the rest of our lives. And then let__ go see The Great Escape, and spend our summer jumping our bikes, just like Steve McQueen over barb wire. And then let__ catch The Seven Samurai for some reason on PBS, and we__l feel like we speak Japanese because we can read the subtitles and hear the language at the same time. And then let__ lose sleep the night before we see 2001: A Space Odyssey because we have this idea that it__ going to change forever the way we look at films. And then let__ go see it four times in one year. And let__ see Woodstock three times in one year and let__ see Taxi Driver twice in one week. And let__ see Close Encounters of the Third Kind just so we can freeze there in mid-popcorn. And when the kids are old enough, let__ sit them together on the sofa and screen City Lights and Stage Coach and The Best Years of Our Lives and On The Waterfront and Midnight Cowboy and Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show and Raging Bull and Schindler__ List_ so that they can understand how the human condition can be captured by this amalgam of light and sound and literature we call the cinema.

[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe__ oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to the early 13th century. He might have appeared as a character in one of his own films about the aristocracy, such as Senso or The Leopard _ that__ the life he was born into. But at a certain point in the 1930s, his passion for theatre, opera and the cinema set him on a radically different path.(...)He has often been referred to as a great political artist, but that__ too limiting and frozen a description. His sense of European history was vast and he knew the lives of the rich and powerful first hand _ but at a certain point he became drawn to understand the other side of life, that of the poor and powerless. He had a strong sense of the particular manner in which absolutely everyone, from the Sicilian fishermen in his neorealist classic La Terra Trema to the Venetian aristocrats in Senso, was affected by the grand movements of history.

[Cinema]_ obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.

Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.

R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept that those under the age of 18 are able to view the film. This means all corporately funded films in the US are made for the eyes of children.

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part.What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

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, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.