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 Sidney Lumet
All good work requires self-revelation.
But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.
