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.
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.
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people read more
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been read more
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
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.
Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.
Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.
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.
The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast read more
The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.'
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
