328 Quotes About Cinema


  • Author Jorge Luis Borges
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    La Historia (que, a semejanza de cierto director cinematográfico, procede por imágenes discontinuas) propone ahora la de una arriesgada taberna, que está en el todopoderoso desierto igual que en alta mar.

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  • Author Henry de Montherlant
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    Le cinéma est le tout-à-l'égout du XXe siècle : quand il y a quelque chose de bas entre deux êtres, cela finit toujours par une salle.

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  • Author Berto Romero
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    Hay un antes y un después de Matrix. Como hay un antes y un después de Los bingueros. De cualquier película hay un antes y un después. Lo que pasa antes es "el antes", y lo que pasa después es "el después".

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  • Author Sami Abouzid
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    I feel connected with the scene each and every time I’m watching a great actress and an amazing actor are killing it in front of a great cameraman and a great director , they all inspiring me of creating a great soundtrack that feels eternal .

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  • Author Giorgio E.S. Ghisolfi
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    un'indagine condotta in termini comparativi, con gli strumenti della critica e della semiotica, sull'identità di ciascun medium, allo scopo di analizzarne i meccanismi di costruzione e di decifrazione, individuandone le radici e anche, poiché i codici vengono fruiti in un contesto sociale e culturale, saggiando, almeno in parte, la portata della loro azione e il valore della loro interazione in termini sociologici. - pag. 12

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  • Author J.G. Ballard
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    No American films?’‘I don’t like comic strips.’‘Film noir?’‘Black is a very sentimental colour. You can hide any rubbish behind it. Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.

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  • Author Guillermo del Toro
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    All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in your entirety for who you are, that’s the greatest act of love, because it’s granting you existence. And the rarest act of love is, like cinema, to see.

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