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“We spend our youth hunting for the reality we think lies on the other side of our illusions. What we find at the other end of our search is what lies on the other side of the movie screen: a dark and desolate space that only reveals the unreality of what we pursued. So we spend our adulthood trying to recapture the illusions. Few of us do.”
― Theodore Roszak, Flicker

“The foundation of Hollywood alchemically turned celluloid into gold and insincerity into an art form.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Both Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton told how much they loved the movie, proving that 'The Princess Bride' appeals to saints and sinners alike.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Sometimes I’d see a movie in a private screening room. No fun. People took phone calls and messages while watching. Made jokes, talked. When I go to a movie I’m a true believer. Or I just walk out.”
― Mario Puzo, The Making of the Godfather

“film contains over two miles of celluloid so is quite heavy, properly so since it contains the labor of hundreds of people over many months to produce your two hour vacation.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

“Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.”
― David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

“Films and television let us experience other lives vicariously, or perhaps voyeuristically, as we watch those lives play out. But in a novel, we can become those characters, we can identify from the inside with someone whose life is radically different from our own. Best of all, when it’s over â€� we get to be ourselves again, changed slightly or profoundly by the experience, possessed of new insights perhaps, but recognizably us once more.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

“Of all the inventions Addie has seen ushered into the world—steam-powered trains, electric lights, photography, and phones, and airplanes, and computers—movies might just be her favorite one.
Books are wonderful, portable, lasting, but sitting there, in the darkened theater, the wide screen filling her vision, the world falls away, and for a few short hours she is someone else, plunged into romance and intrigue and comedy and adventure. All of it complete with 4K picture and stereo sound.
A quiet heaviness fills her chest when the credits roll. For a while she was weightless, but now she returns to herself, sinking until her feet are back on the ground.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It was the sort of thing Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker

“Her only escape was in films and books. She read as though her life depended on it.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

“One of the jokes in 'Back to the Future' is how people in the 1950s don't get 1980s fashion. People in the 1950s were right.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Wow, you really... like my drawings." he eventually replied. When Tim Burton pretty much tells you that you're an obsessive nerd, you know you've crossed a line.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“Just the thought of Michael Douglas dirty dancing is faintly traumatizing.”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“I only managed to last a week on a dating website. You see, because of 'The Princess Bride' I have high standards when it comes to love and I just didn't believe that any beautiful farm boys would be on match.com. How would he have wifi up in his mountainous hovel?”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“When most people think of masculinity in eighties movies, they probably think of that strange genre that sprouted and bulged up in that decade like Popeye's biceps after eating spinach, consisting of men who look like "condoms stuffed with walnuts," speaking their lines in confused accents and emphasising random syllables, strongly suggesting they'd learned the words phonetically: Schwarzenegger, Lundgren, Stallone (technically, if not obviously, a native English speaker).”
― Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies

“As men require a heaping dose of dreams to reconcile themselves to waking life, so too does the hulking Leviathan of society require its dreams—which are films.”
― Michael Shindler

“We’re the ones that have always been excluded, afraid to be ourselves. And now what? We get our own scene and start pushing people to the sidelines? Does that make sense? Fuck that. Fuck being as small as they are. Be big. Be bigger than them.”
― Eyad Zahra

“Islam isn't about ayats and hadiths and niches and lamps. Its about us. All of us. Allah’s too big and too open for my Islam to be small and closed”
― Eyad Zahra

“Many Hollywood films don’t do too much except advertise envy. What is so admirable about them is how much art is missing, how much questioning is not there. Stunning it is, how what are celebrated as the best, most innovative films are essentially publicity for the corporate control of the masses. As art they are as distinct as sand from other sand.”
― Greg Gerke, See What I See

“Far too many policies President Reagan enacted during his two terms boasted this "Don't Worry, Be Happy"/"Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid" schizophrenia.”
― John Kenneth Muir, Horror Films of the 1980s

“Naturalism was never the point.”
― Chris Holmlund, Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic

“Have you seen the movie of The Thirty Nine Steps?â€�
“I saw an old one with Kenneth More.”
― Ellen Read, When Jacarandas Bloom

“Hollywood’s motives in marketing sex may have been cynical—Hollywood’s motives always are. But in providing audiences with sophisticated fare, it was also responding to real cultural changes that had happened within American society. Hollywood was a few years behind the trend, of course, but that’s nothing new. Don’t forget, this is the same industry that for seventy years has made wonderful, passionate, stirring anti-war movies six or seven years after every war, never during one.”
― Mick LaSalle, Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood

“Acting is very overrated profession
If you really want to be a fan, you can find better people and profession, rather than an actor whose work depends on fake things.”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent.

(Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader)”
― Nancy Morejón

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“Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. 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”
― Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski

“Almost every genre film made for a while was an Anti-Genre Film. With the idea behind the film being to expose the absurdity and unsavory politics that have hidden underneath said genre since the beginning of Hollywood”
― Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

“So then . . .â€� I began. “Why did humans congregate to watch movies?â€�

“Because humans valued stories over logic,â€� said Parent_1. “It was another of their flaws.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human

“I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outside and feel good about it, I can leave it in the room. A book hangs around, but an image is just a moment.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread