Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
“Screenwriting Isn’t Writing” and Other Bullshit
by Angela Guess Richard Brody of the New Yorker published an article this week under the inhospitable title, "Screenwriting Isn't Writing." The article discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's unsuccessful bout as a screenwriter, purporting: Fitzgerald’s time in Hollywood was a period of illusion, of delusion over all. Much to his credit and much to his misfortune, he was... Continue Reading →
Quote of the Day: Roman Polanski
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Quote of the Day: John Berger
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
Quote of the Day: Frank Miller
Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.
Quote of the Day: Francis Ford Coppola
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Quote of the Day: Jean-Luc Godard
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Quote of the Day: Roman Polanski
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Quote of the Day: Federico Fellini
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
Quote of the Day: Serge Daney
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.