#film

Yet in recent years I have witnessed a new phenomenon among filmgoers, especially those considered intelligent and perceptive. I have a name for this phenomenon: the Instant White-out. People are closeted in cozy darkness; they turn off their mobile phones and willingly give themselves, for ninety minutes or two hours, to a new film that got a fourstar rating in the newspaper. They follow the pictures and the plot, understand what is spoken either in the original tongue or via dubbing or subtitles, enjoy lush locations and clever scenes, and even if they find the story superficial or preposterous, it is not enough to pry them from their seats and make them leave the theatre in the middle of the show. But something strange happens. After a short while, a week or two, sometimes even less, the film is whitened out, erased, as if it never happened. They can’t remember its name, or who the actors were, or the plot. The movie fades into the darkness of the movie house, and what remains is at most a ticket stub left accidentally in one’s pocket. (The Retrospective) ↗

— A.B. Yehoshua

#filmmaking #intelligence

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies." Steve Martin ↗

— Steve Martin

#films #life

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#film #life #movies #photography #life

I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#advice #alfred-hitchcock #filming-scenes #life

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#fulfilment #goals #happiness #happyness #inspirirational-quotes

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#love-hurts #love

...I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#empowerment #filming #gender #independence #men

Women are very clear and transparent, anyone can read them, they don't play 'hide and seek' like men. #LIFE OF LOVE ↗

— Santonu Kumar Dhar

#life-of-love-film #love

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped. ↗

— Luis Buñuel

#film #movies #rape #movies