#cinema

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose. I saw their point at once. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#movies #silver-screen #movies

Film analysis enables us to recognize how the filmmakers have their magic on us, how all the constituent elements of the film have combined to create that magic. Rather than rob us of the pleasures of watching films, this approach affords us the even greater pleasure of deep engagement ↗

— Jon Lewis

#film-analysis #filmmaking #films #motion-picture #movie

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#art form #been #cinema #effects #extraordinary

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema. ↗

— Sunny Deol

#cinema #commercial #created #enjoy #films

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#cinema #many #shores #then #woman

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

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#cinema #did #entertaining #film #hopefully

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#drink #film #i #last #remember

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#hearing #inattention #listen #look #magazines

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. ↗

— Jane Campion

#better #cinema #conservative #daring #go