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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it.

Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Carl Jung

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Will Rogers

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Jim Morrison

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Federico Fellini

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Roman Polanski

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

John Berger

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international

Bernard Tavernier

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