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I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years. ↗

— Bryan Singer

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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

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In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement. ↗

— Peter Weir

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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ↗

— Oskar Werner

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I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress. ↗

— Oskar Werner

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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

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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it." Andy Warhol ↗

— Andy Warhol

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