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- The Camera Eye is the possibility of making visible the invisible, of bringing light into darkness, of revealing what is hidden ... of turning the lie into truth.
- - Dziga Vertov
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I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Self-plagiarism is style.
- Alfred Hitchcock
If you make movies about movies and about characters instead of people, the echoes get thinner and thinner until they're reduced to mechanical sounds.
- John Huston
If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects what's the point?
- Pauline Kael
With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film.
- Akira Kurosawa
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
- Jean Renoir
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out
- Martin Scorcese
The Camera Eye is the possibility of making visible the invisible, of bringing light into darkness, of revealing what is hidden ... of turning the lie into truth.
- Dziga Vertov
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
- Billy Wilder
