"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
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"The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are."
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"For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much."
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"I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome."
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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'."
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"Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts."
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"Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand."
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"The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death."
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"After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules."
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"The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life."
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"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke."
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"I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important."
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"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
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"The cinema is death at work."
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"I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema."
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"The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film."
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"I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case."
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"It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet"
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"Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it."
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"I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing."
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