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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
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Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.
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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
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Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
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I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
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I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
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I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
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If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
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If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.
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It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
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