A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau
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  1. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire. - Unknown

  2. Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did... - Jim Morrison

  3. The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. - Alain De Botton

  4. When everything gets answered, it's fake. - Sean Penn

  5. In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God. - Orson Welles

More Quotes By Jean Cocteau
  1. Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  2. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  3. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  4. A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability...

  5. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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