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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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
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.'
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and read more
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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.
