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Nick Shellenbarger
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“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
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Roger Ebert
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“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
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“People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.”
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Nicole Yatsonsky
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“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
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Martin Scorsese
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“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
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Werner Herzog
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“Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.”
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Alfred Hitchcock
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“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
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Alfred Hitchcock
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“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.”
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Paulo Coelho
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