#cinema

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. ↗

— Jean Rouch

#fiction #lies #reality #truth #art

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

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. ↗

— Peter Weir

#cinema #cycles #feeling #film #flagging

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 love cinema. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#i #i love #love

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american cinema #cinema #i #important #important question

There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#cinema #dictatorship #i #i love #iranian

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#any #australian #because #bit #bought

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#animators #bible #called #cinema #digital

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#film #i #stage #techniques #theatrical