cinema quotes

   La photographie, c'est la ve  rite  . Le cine  ma: la ve  rite   vingt- quatre fois par seconde. Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

-Jean-Luc Godard
  Le Petit Soldat.

Most cinema is built along19th-century models.You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes. Most of the cinema we've got is modelled on Dickens and Balzac and Jane Austen.

- Peter Greenaway
  In The Guardian,10 May.

  If the cinema is any kind of force for social change, then it's a force for the bad, because most films are about one guy with a gun solving a problem.

- Ken Loach
  In Cineaste, Winter issue.

Mon fre'  re, en une nuit, avait invente   le cine  matographe. My brother, in one night, had invented the cinema.

- Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumie'  re
Of the night his brother Louis had a flash of inspiration which resulted in the'Kinetoscope de projection'patented in1895. Quoted in C  W Ceram  Archaeology of the Cinema (1965).

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato  grafo haya sido para m | el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo  n†en la pantalla que impregno   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

- Horacio Quiroga
Anaconda,'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa' ('Miss Dorothy Phillips, MyWife').

People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.

-Tony (Cecil Antonio) Richardson
  On Britain. Quoted in the Monthly Film Bulletin, Apr1993.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

- Albert Schweitzer
  Scorsese: A PersonalJourneyThrough American Movies.