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“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"
[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
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[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
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“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange

“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”
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Steve Martin”
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“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn鈥檛 all corruption. The movie doesn鈥檛 have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor鈥檚 scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense. Sitting there alone or painfully alone because those with you do not react as you do, you know there must be others perhaps in this very theatre or in this city, surely in other theatres in other cities, now, in the past or future, who react as you do. And because movies are the most total and encompassing art form we have, these reactions can seem the most personal and, maybe the most important, imaginable. The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you鈥檝e seen. You do meet them, of course, and you know each other at once because you talk less about good movies than about what you love in bad movies.”
― For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
― For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
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“Hollywood is bigger down right now by sequels, by the uninspired. Well, my M.O. is a two-hour feast for your senses. That means starting the concept of filmmaking from scratch, making it your own.”
― Slow Down
― Slow Down

“I hate most people. And I don鈥檛 want to, it鈥檚 an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It鈥檚 repulsive, because one鈥檚 life consists of people, not things.”
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“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief鈥�. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l鈥檕riginalit茅, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
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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.)”
― Experience: A Memoir
― Experience: A Memoir

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later?"
Stanley Kubrick”
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Stanley Kubrick”
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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.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces

“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”
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Andy Warhol”
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“Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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― Some Like It Hot
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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― Some Like It Hot

“Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.”
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“That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.”
― Remake
― Remake

“When the lights go off in a movie theatre, everyone becomes this one entity: the audience watching the film. And most films aim to get the same emotions out of people. The same reactions. To laugh or be scared or cry or be inspired. The audience goes in as individuals and comes out as people who鈥檝e all experienced the same thing, are all feeling the same way.”
― This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
― This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

“It's an obsession of mine, that different people, in different places, are thinking the same thing, but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.”
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“If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more.”
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“Il y a des livres qu'il devrait 锚tre interdit de lire trop t么t. On passe 脿 c么t茅 ou 谩 travers. Et de films aussi. On devrait mettre dessus une 茅tiquette: Ne pas voir ou ne pas lire avant d'avoir v茅cu”
― Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes
― Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes
“The Godfather, A Place in the Sun, Dodsworth, Galaxy Quest--these are perfect films. They start with a simple premise and proceed logically, and inevitably, toward a conclusion both surprising and inevitable. [From the chapter "The Script."]”
― Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
― Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

“Am Wagemut, an der Energie der Amerikaner k枚nnen wir uns ein Bespiel nehmen, aber der amerikanische Tonfilm wird sich nicht 眉ber die Grenzen hinaus entwickeln, die die von einigen Finanzm盲chtigen geleitete 枚ffentliche Meinung zieht. Er wird technisch brillant werden, aber als Dokument und k眉nstlerische Wahrheit nur in Ausnahmef盲llen sich durchsetzen.”
― Quer durch: Reisebilder und Reden
― Quer durch: Reisebilder und Reden

“Movies are not good or bad because of their subjects but because of their treatments of their subjects. Any plot can be made into trash, and probably any plot can be made into greatness.”
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“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read his films. It should, however, remind us that his British films in particular come out of a highly class-structured and class-conscious social formation and are likely to bear the traces of this, even if only in their interstices.”
― Cinema, Culture, Scotland: Selected Essays
― Cinema, Culture, Scotland: Selected Essays
“Regional films are the heart and soul of diverse storytelling, yet they're often sidelined for mainstream glitz.”
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