In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take read more
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened read more
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the read more
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
