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“Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.”

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Author:Renata Adler

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

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Author:John Hughes

“Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.”

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Author:Roman Polanski

“Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.”

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Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.”

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Author:Will Smith

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters”

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Author:Robin Tunney

“In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery”

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Author:Max von Sydow

“I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.”

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Author:Oskar Werner

“The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”

“I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.”

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Author:George Hickenlooper