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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

— Jean Cocteau

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You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Le Mystère Laïc (1928)

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

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A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion it train people seeing it to react abnormally.

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Not even the church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion picture company.

William Moulton Marston

It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery.

George Orwell

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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