What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
July 11, 2013
Quote of the Day: Frank Miller
Hollywood is a town; it’s not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.
July 3, 2013
Quote of the Day: Francis Ford Coppola
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
November 6, 2012
Quote of the Day: Roman Polanski
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
August 31, 2012
Quote of the Day: Federico Fellini
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
August 20, 2012
Quote of the Day: Serge Daney
If you can’t believe a little in what you see on the screen, it’s not worth wasting your time on cinema.
August 8, 2012
Quote of the Day: Alfred Hitchcock
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
August 2, 2012
Quote of the Day: Federico Fellini
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.
August 1, 2012
Quote of the Day: Jean-Luc Godard
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
LA Screenwriter 