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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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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.
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and read more
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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
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.
Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
