#movies

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#film #movies #passion #scholars #scholarship

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#demanding #movies #out #scenes #see

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#movie #movies

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#religion #movies

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#about #film #idea #make #usually

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#difficult #i #i do #just #know

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#camera #cutting #down #everybody #front

Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon. ↗

— Teruyo Nogami

#history #movies #rashomon #movies