cinema, n.All

Cinema is a manifestation of reality. If it is an imaginary of reality it is an extraction or subtraction from the potential that this reality already is.

Cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernability between art and non-art.

Cinema is achieved in the editing room, it is not an achievement of directing.

Cinema is a way to make people sensitive through emotions. It is a way to make them feel, to experience empathy on the assumption that people act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

Cinema is a director's medium, so being an actor is about adapting physically and emotionally to the director's will.

Cinema is a festival of affects.

Cinema is a physical thing. It is about creating a physical shock with the audience... it is not about meaning, the idea, or saying something. It is about making a 'shock physique'.

James Joyce opened the first cinema in Ireland.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.