328 Quotes About Cinema

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

Movie lots are strange places. You feel like you’re in a waking dream, meeting cowboys and showgirls, ape-men and Roman centurions, all of them just walking along like any other bunch of workers on their way to the office or the factory. They looked even stranger than usual today, since most of them had umbrellas up

Funny movies are funny only in a full house. When the place is nearly empty, you notice how after every joke there’s a deliberate pause in the action to allow for a wave of laughter from the audience, and since this evening no one was laughing, the whole thing began to seem sad

Ricordarsi che un film è un’opera d’arte (ma non necessariamente), che vive solo nella quarta dimensione, il tempo. Un’opera d’arte alta tre centimetri e lunga perlomeno due chilometri e mezzo. La velocità del percorso è fissa: milleseicentoquarantacinque metri l’ora.

Il cinema sta prevaricando sulla realtà e dà false informazioni sulla vita. Questo per il cinema corrente. Quello sperimentale dà false informazioni sui sogni.

They went along a balcony that looked down over the dining room and the dance floor. The lisp of hot jazz came up to them from the lithe, swaying bodies of a high-yaller band. With the lisp of jazz came the smell of food and cigarette smoke and perspiration. The balcony was high and the scene down below had a patterned look, like an overhead camera shot. (Nevada Gas)

Le cinéma sonore a inventé le silence.

Traduire le vent invisible par l'eau qu'il sculpte en passant.

We need to see ourselves projected in other members of our species to, in turn, understand ourselves. Cinema, is that mirror. It is a bridge between the others and us.