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"I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting."
Werner Herzog

"Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same."
Hayao Miyazaki

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

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
Alan Rickman

"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work."
Hayao Miyazaki

"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."
Andy Warhol

"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
Stanley Kubrick

"The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same."
Jim Jarmusch

"Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions."
Hayao Miyazaki

"Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."
Pedro Almodovar

"Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema."
David Lynch

"Fear is the mother of foresight."
Thomas Hardy

"There are no explanations, there are no answers."
Jessica Lange

"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis

"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'"
Quentin Tarantino

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. (via Brainy Quote)"
Samuel Goldwyn

"Movie Reviewers: Don't give any movie the full five stars because that means "perfect" and only Meat Loaf is perfect. (via Twitter)"
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"Don't judge a book by its movie. (via Twitter)"
Steven Winterburn

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Unless you look at the inside lid. Then it tells you exactly. (via Twitter)"
Madam & Eve

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."
Jim Rohn

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde

"A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings."
Stanley Kubrick

"The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age."
Carl Gustav Jung

"Never judge a book by its movie."
J.W. Eagan

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
Alfred Hitchcock

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Alfred Hitchcock

"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself."
Jean Anouilh

"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."
Ralph Richardson

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
Roman Polanski

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