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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.

William Moulton Marston

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 film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

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)

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Samuel Goldwyn

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

Will Rogers The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.

Federico Fellini

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Georges Duhamel Scènes de la vie future (1930)

Watching movies, but we ain't seeing a thing tonight.

Ariana Grande

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

Sound and talking undoubtedly increase the entertainment value of a picture. There is a distinct conflict, however, between a pictorial and sound elements, which cannot be entirely avoided until third dimensional pictures are made.

William Moulton Marston

Sometimes watching a movie is a bit like getting raped.

Luis Buñuel

Film is not the art of scholars, but illiterates.

Werner Herzog

The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.

Elmer Davis

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone — just look at Orson Welles or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.

Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

To write a script today means working for a committee of people who know nothing about movies, as opposed, say, to real estate or the higher art of bookkeeping.

Gore Vidal

The mass is a matrix from which all traditional behavior toward works of art issues today in a new form. Quantity has been transmuted into quality. The greatly increased mass of participants has produced a change in the mode of participation.

Walter Benjamin

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