History of Cinema in Quotes
History of Cinema quotes
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In this section you can find the history of cinema in quotes, from the silent movies to the early 20th century special effects. What do actors and directors think about the changes in the way of filmmaking? Themes and plots have changed, following the evolution of society and technology. In old science fiction movies, though, we find some prophetical images that tell our present. Between the nostalgia of black and white movies and the enthusiasm that surrounds digital imagery, celebrities give you their opinion about the everchanging world of movie business.
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“One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.”
“My argument in defense of make-up stems to 1932 when I won an Academy Award for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. At that time I too was a young leading man. I accepted the role because it afforded me the opportunity to do something besides smile and make love to lovely leading ladies.”
“Just as your iPhone is a lot better now than it was four years ago, obviously the same is true for computer animation.”
“Scarface is basically the American Dream told through a gangster saga.”
“Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry.”
“As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.”
“I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.”
“In science fiction, you create your own reality.”
“People don't want to read subtitles.”
“January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.”
“We are having problems relaunching cinema as a popular art.”
“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”
“I think they've just forgotten how to make them. Everybody is so anti-violence these days.”
“It seems the theater has been on the downcline since the mid-fifties. The pace of television shows is very unappealing to me.”
“As far as I'm concerned, it's time the button-down collar, white shirt, and tie became the uniform of Hollywood's male dramatic personnel. There are no bare-chested, pectoral-showing parts on my film calendar.”
“Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.”
“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
“I started movies in 1980. I don't think anything's changed for the best. When it comes down to certain technologies and certain things that have afforded more people to maybe have a shot at making a movie or something like that, that's good. But you also end up with 50,000 times the amount of bad movies, because now anybody can make a bad movie.”
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