I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Peter Barsocchini, Writer

We’re all in this together

Its appeal with parents and children alike, is founded on its wholesome and innocent image.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

You know you've made it when you've been molded in miniature plastic. It's a bit scary, actually…

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.

Stanley Kubrick, Director

The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Andrew Stanton, Director

It'll look even better now for somebody at home than it ever did for anybody seeing it for the first time in the theater

Keep swimming!

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different.. I'd rather be completely f***ing mental.

I don't hate you for failing, I love you for trying.

What's a wedding? Webster's dictionary describes it as the act of removing weeds from

one's garden.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese, Director

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Producer, Robert Evans (The Godfather, Chinatown)

The key to being a great producer is TIME MANAGEMENT

Before anything else, the producer must know the end result of the project, and know which path the project will take after it is completed.

THE PICTURE HAS TO BE MADE – You have to do whatever it takes.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

Sunglasses are part of my armor. I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world. Not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

George Lucas, Director

Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to: • reality • the other arts • individual viewers• society at large

•Mise-en-scene•Cinematography•Editing•Sound•Performance

•Genre•Narrative•Messages •Values

Types of Cinema

French New Wave

British New Wave

Avant-Garde

German Expressionism

Soviet Montage

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World Cinema

Postmodern

Film – Creative Projects

• Short film production• Screenplay writing• Photographic storyboards• Extended Step Outlines

For Godard, it is not that “the movies” are an illusion, but that they're a(n ideological) deception.

Jean-Luc Godard castigated the Hollywood Dream Factory, for using cinema to entertain rather than pursue truth.