Quotes regarding Film - Cinema, Movies, Motion pictures - and film makers .

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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
  • Who: Jean-Luc Godard, Quoted in Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970)

• Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
  • [variation] Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second
  • Who: Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960)

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all, that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open, has disspeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?
  • Who: Federico Fellini [on the Decline of Cinema], a Fellini Lexicon, (1992)

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
  • Who: Federico Fellini, [Recipe for a Good Film], a Fellini Lexicon, (1992)

Attributed

• "No one ever went broke in Hollywood underestimating the intelligence of the public." ~ Elsa Maxwell

• "There's no crying in independent film." ~ Robert Redford , (Tanner on Tanner episode 1)

• "A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder" ~ Alfred Hitchcock

• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
  Variation: A good film is when the price of the admission, the dinner and the babysitter was well worth it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

• "There is no such thing as an old film. What people call old films are simply films made before they were born."
  • anonymous

See also

Film directors

Films

Quotes about Television