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For the most people cinema is meant to be watched and for a few artists it is meant to be created. Talking about films is something of the lower kind. However, there are some great phrases about cinema which I want to share.

In feature films the director is God, in documentary films God is the director. (Alfred Hithcock)

If my films make one person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job. (Woody Allen)

It’s great that audience have their own different takes on what they have just seen, and don’t know all the answers. Often, I don’t know the answers either. (Jim Jarmusch)

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. (Ethan Coen)

A films is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The them, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. (Stanley Kubrick)

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