After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
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JeanLuc Godard
Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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Iain Banks
If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?
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Brigid Pasulka
Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
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John Cassavetes
More Quotes By Harmony Korine
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
