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“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.”

World Years Film Growth Involved Ten Training Happenings Reflection Years Ago Immense Documentaries Minerals Mining

Author:Ann Macbeth

“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.”

Dream Film Language Directors Reflection Capture

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.”

“American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.”

Film Reflection Capitalism Cinema Expressive American Capitalism

Book:Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense

Source: Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense

“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.”

“In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.”

Men States Film Poor Rooms Danger Possibility Horror Reflection Hollywood Western Violent Solitary Nasty Thrillers Violent Death

Author:Andrew Tudor

“A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.”

Soul Film Reflection Creator

Author:Isabelle Huppert