Quotes About Classic Cinema

#1. Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#2. I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

Cary Fukunaga

#3. That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Catherine Deneuve

#4. My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

Sadegh Hedayat

#5. But she's the kind that won't be downed easily. She'll work all day and go to a Bohemian wedding and dance all night, and drive the hay wagon for a cross man next morning.

Willa Cather

#6. The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly.

Brian Cox

#7. Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.

Alexander Payne

#8. So pathetic," he said, with a grunt. "So sad. Such a cliche. You can be so fond of cinema, of world literature, the classics, but then, when you find yourself playing out a classic scene, you don't feel ennobled, linked to that greatness. You feel...pathetic.

David Cronenberg

#9. By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Charles Horton Cooley

#10. If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. You gonna make it? Fallon asked Brody, eyeing him. He looked two steps from the grave. Well, if I don't, you guys feel free to eat me. A little meat would do you good. These damn veggies ain't doing shit.

Shandy L. Kurth

#12. The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

William Herschel

#13. Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

John Hyams

#15. If you truly love someone, you don't judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future belongs to you.

Nishan

#16. By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Steve Erickson

#17. A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit.

Munia Khan

#18. Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

Roberto Duran

#19. I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.

Sam Riley

#20. One can't mount a stripper pole wearing a metal diving suit.

Mary Karr

#21. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

Vladimir Sorokin