Film quotations

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◆ Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

- Slavoj ?i?ek99

◆ Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

- Joan Didion98

◆ Women think in [Douglas] Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen. It's great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.

- Rainer Werner Fassbinder98

◆ I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

- Peter Greenaway98

◆ When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance98

◆ The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

- Jean-Luc Godard98

◆ No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

- Roger Ebert98

◆ R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept that those under the age of 18 are able to view the film. This means all corporately funded films in the US are made for the eyes of children.

- Crispin Hellion Glover98

◆ I don't know. ?I don't really like old movies. ?The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. ?Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding

- Stephanie Perkins98

◆ I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

- Bruce Springsteen98

◆ i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

- Jean-Luc Godard98

◆ People are mysterious, even to themselves.

- Frank Lentricchia98

◆ No one can be the total cure for another person.

- Frank Lentricchia98

◆ Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

- John Cassavetes98

◆ Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

- J. Michael Straczynski98