#cinema

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#could #directing #discuss #doing #glad

So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, "Outta light, guys" - and that was it. ↗

— Joel Schumacher

#around #break #cinematographer #day #food

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

— Slavoj Žižek

#cinema #education #film #life #philosophy

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.) ↗

— Martin Amis

#crying #films #movies #poignancy #experience

Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming. ↗

— Gene Youngblood

#life

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 My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.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

— Georges Duhamel

#film #film-criticism #literary-criticism #thoughts #literary-criticism

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#chaplin #cinema #context #elevated #extraordinary

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio. ↗

— Jeanine Basinger

#cinema #like #magic #radio #ventriloquism

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#cinema #economy #global #global economy #international

I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#going #hate #i #i wish #normally