Top 50

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" The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. "
Stanley Kubrick

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" That is all there is in life — beauty. You find that and you have found everything. "
Charlie Chaplin

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" When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite. "
Sergio Leone

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" Paradise is too perfect for humanity. "
Dario Argento

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" If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. "
Pier Paolo Pasolini

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" Life is a combination of magic and pasta. "
Federico Fellini

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" The creation is a victory over fear. It is our true destiny. "
Francis Ford Coppola

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" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "
Ridley Scott

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" I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth. "
David Lynch

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" Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. "
Andreï Tarkosvki

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" The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it. "
Stanley Kubrick

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" Before, I used to think that the most frightening thing in this world would be death. Now I know better. In life, the most frightening thing is life. "
Mikhail Kalatozov

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" If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. "
Billy Wilder

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" In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. "
Francis Ford Coppola

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" Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry. "
Carl Theodor Dreyer

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" Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers. "
Steven Spielberg

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" I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect. "
Ingmar Bergman

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" Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut. "
Charles Laughton

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“ L’homme a du génie lorsqu’il rêve. ”
Akira Kurosawa

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" Rien ne distingue les souvenirs des autres moments : ce n’est que plus tard qu’ils se font reconnaître, à leurs cicatrices. "
Chris Marker

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" The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good. "
Andreï Tarkosvki

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" L'Aurore est le plus beau film du monde. "
François Truffaut

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" What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice. "
Andreï Tarkosvki

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" It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer. "
Luchino Visconti

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" In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams. "
Sergio Leone

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" Le plus beau film du cinéma français. "
Jean-Pierre Melville

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" The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. "
John Ford

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" If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. "
Federico Fellini

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" My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. "
Frederick Wiseman

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“ Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. "
Martin Scorsese