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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“The winds of change have blown through Hollywood and left destruction in their path.”
“Cinemascope places a director somewhere between the stage and the screen technique.”
“I suggested to Schulberg that he let me do a comedy about the Olympic Games, poke fun at the whole thing, and B.S. went along with it. That's how I got to write 'Million Dollar Legs', which had W.C. Fields and Ben Turpin and a whole batch of comics. Nowadays the art-film students say it was years ahead of its time — that's happened to me a lot...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I've seen 'A Night at the Opera' seventeen times ... I just couldn't get over that love story between Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle.”
“There were giants in the industry. Now it is an era of midgets and conglomerates.”
“I was the first star who ever came out of the water looking wet.”
“The MGM lot is the Baghdad of filmdom.”
“I don't like films with a 'message' and I think that 'entertainment' is the necessary element. You can get across a message and entertain the public at the same time and that's what is really important. ”
“Only the first picture of a cycle really succeeds. All the imitators dwindle.”
“The movies are the greatest political fact in the world today.”
“It is a formula for a funeral, or for snakes, but not for human beings.”
“I don't think any good will come out of modern technology as it is used in the United States today.
”“The movies are the new literature.”
“We've had World War I, World War II, and now this Korean War—everywhere in America, in practically every home, there's some family with a veteran who was wounded. So I asked John, why does Gregory Peck have to have one leg?
”“We have too many actors for the jobs available.”
“I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.”
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