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• The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That’s why so many bad novels can become good movies, like ‘Jaws’ or ‘The Godfather.’

  Alexander Payne

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• ‘Independent’ means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director’s voice is extremely present. It’s such a pretentious term, but it’s auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist… Whatever word you want.

  Alexander Payne

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• I don’t think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I’m always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking – although I want good talking. I’m much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.

  Alexander Payne

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• The best cinema is about ethics.

  Alexander Payne

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• I don’t want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

  Alexander Payne

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• ‘Cinema Paradiso’ is a fantastic film, I love that.

  Freddie Highmore

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• 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.

  George Hickenlooper

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• French cinema audiences usually don’t express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

  Michel Hazanavicius

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• I’ve grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you’re doing.

  Dhani Harrison

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• When I first envisioned ‘Funny Games’ in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

  Michael Haneke

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• We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.

  D. W. Griffith

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• I think there’s a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• It’s cool for me because I’m a director, but I’m also a teacher. I’m a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.

  John Singleton

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• I would love to make a Brazilian film, but it would have to be something very close to my heart. It’s such a personal thing, so I’d want to do my family proud. I’d want to do justice to Brazilian cinema. I think Brazilian cinema is brilliant. I would really love to do something, but I’m just waiting for the right thing.

  Kaya Scodelario

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• Cinema is incredibly concise.

  Yann Martel

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• I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

  Antoine Fuqua

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• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

  Amitabh Bachchan

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• Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

  Kathryn Bigelow

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