cinema

Cockney Rhyming Slang

James Joyce

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2022

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

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want'' Being an actor is about adapting physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. Nicole Kidman

Roland Barthes, 'Constraints of representation (analogous to the obligatory rubrics of language) make it necessary to receive everything: of a men walking in the snow, even before he signifies, everything is given to me... in writing, on the contrary, I am not obliged to see how the hero wears his nails but if it wants to, the Text describes, and with what force, Hölderlin's filthy talons.' The trouble, in short, was that film that 'festival of affects,' as Barthes called it offered the spectator too much, yet not enough.

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.

For Deleuze, 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.

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'.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.' Bruno Dumont

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

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernability between art and non-art. Alain Badiou

Cinema is a reflection of its own society. Shorn Aghdashloo

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 my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched. Bruno Dumont

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

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Orson Welles

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