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I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

Sharon Tate Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000)

But you just don't know where any film is going to go, or how it's going to end up. Films so often don't get the love and attention needed to get to the right festival, or find the right distributor, or get seen by the world.

Lulu Wang

I'm fascinated by the movies simply because it is an enormous machine for making money and no matter how badly they run it, it still makes money. It's the perfect industry to put your nephew in and your idiot cousin, because they'll be geniuses.

Mario Puzo

The culture is unchallenged as the standard setter, and the child’s sense of right and wrong and his priorities in life are shaped primarily by what he learns from the television, the movie screen and the CD player.

Joe Lieberman

Hollywood, television and film is not my prime area of interest. Because I would never have any control, working in those areas. It’s nice to get the money from a Hollywood project, but whatever they do with it, it would be their piece of work, and not mine.

Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)

Photography and cinema contributed in large part to the secularization of history, to fixing it in its visible, "objective" form at the expense of the myths that once traversed it. Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.

Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

While people are always quick to take up the cudgels against censorship of the press, or radio, any crackpot can advocate new forms of censorship for the movies, and not a voice is lifted in protest. There's something illogical about this indifference to censorship of the movies. After all, it's just as much a medium of public expression as are the radio and newspapers.

Humphrey Bogart

We know the power of short movies. When they are well done, [they are] greater and more incisive than full-length films. Professionally done trailers are sometimes better than the full movies they announce, being a form of visual art in themselves or even containing self-sufficient micro-stories.

Marco Respinti

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.

Jean-Luc Godard

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.

Pauline Kael Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968)

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Sergei Eisenstein

She has only warped second-hand memories of motion pictures, none of them her own. It seems like a fantastically unproductive use of her time with Alex, staring vacantly at an elaborate visual lie.

Charles Stross The Nightmare Stacks (2016)

Filmmaking has now reached the same stage as sex—it’s all technique and no feeling.

Penelope Gilliatt

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

Hermann Göring

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird—you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Britney Spears After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003)

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there’s no way that I’d be the person my kids want when they fall down.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Sir, in K. Balachander's unit, the dialogue for an entire film was only this much.

Rajinikanth

From to-day smoking in all public places is prohibited. Smoking will not be allowed in public vehicles, cinema halls, schools, work places, restaurants and anywhere else where members of the public are enjoying fresh air.

Charity Ngilu

Cinema is an industry, and it cannot be poor.

Irina Allegrova

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