What they said about the cinema

Selection, Organization and Editing: Marco Aurélio Lucchetti

Brigitte Bardot: Cinema is a kind of gilded prison.
Beyoncé: Cinema is this strange beast, where we shoot pieces and only see the result months later.
Louis Delluc: Cinema is painting in motion.
RF Lucchetti: Cinema is the art of expression through images.
Louis Lumière: This invention has no future whatsoever.
Mel Gibson: Independent cinema is the future.
Henry MillerI would welcome with open arms the day when Cinema replaces Literature, when there is no longer any need to read.
Herbert Read: Every work of art is a product of creative imagination. And, to deserve the name of art, Cinema must also be a product of the same source.
NElson Rodrigues: Cinema isn't quite an art form yet. Maybe in six thousand years it will be.
Georges Sadoul: Cinema is an art. The actors' performances, the set design, the diversity of the wardrobe, the quality of the cinematography, the humanity of the narrative, the perfection of the technique, the truth and poetry of the direction, the reality of the feelings, the harmony of the music… can all result in a film that rivals the greatest works created by human genius. Cinema forged itself through its own means, starting from the synthesis of almost all other arts: Literature, Theatre, Painting, Architecture, Music, etc. Cinema is also an industry and a business. To make a great film that lasts ninety minutes on screen, dozens of diverse specialists – creators, technicians, workers – have to work for weeks and months… Significant capital is needed to start a feature film. To produce, sell, rent, exhibit and distribute films, there are hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide, practicing hundreds of different trades.
García EscuderoThere is the Seventh Art. It is Cinema. The Eighth Art is making money from the Seventh. This dream factory that is Cinema interests the masses and immediately becomes a healthy business. Its inventors, the Lumière Brothers (Auguste and Louis), failed to see this. When Georges Méliès wanted to buy their invention, they disappointed him. “"It's not for sale, young man. And thank us for it. Apart from its scientific interest, it has no commercial value."”
Louise Brooks: The great art of filmmaking does not consist in the description of facial and body movements, but in the movements of thought and soul, conveyed in a kind of absolute isolation.
Brigitte Bardot: Cinema is superficial, harsh, and unfair.

Florinda Bolkan:  The film industry lacks logic.
Louis Malle: I believe that cinema lends itself very little to psychological subtleties within a sociological context.
Salvador DalíContrary to popular opinion, Cinema is infinitely poorer and more limited in expressing the real processes of thought than Literature, Painting, Sculpture, or Architecture. Below it is only Music, whose spiritual value, as everyone knows, is almost nil.
Duhamel: It is a pastime for outcasts, a diversion for illiterates, for miserable people, overwhelmed by their work and worries. It is a spectacle that requires no effort, that presupposes no implication of ideas, raises no questions, illuminates no passion, awakens no light in the depths of hearts, and excites no hope, except that ridiculous one of one day becoming... star in Los Angeles.
Jean-Luc Godard: I eagerly await the end of cinema.
Henry Miller: What I deplore most is that the art of filmmaking has never been properly explored.
Moussinac: Cinema will only reach the pinnacle of its discovery when people reach the pinnacle of freedom.
Henri Agel: When film culture is widespread enough for viewers to abandon their traditional passivity, they will understand that good films are not limited to telling a story; they will understand that Cinema, like Music, Poetry and Dance, is a meditation organized according to a particular mode of expression… they will also understand that its fundamental role is to transmit to us the dream or stream of thought of a creator.

WHO'S WHO
BEyoncé (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) – American singer, dancer, and actress.
BRigite Bardot (Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot) – French actress, model and activist.
DUhamel (Georges Duhamel, 1884-1966) – French writer.
FLorinda Bolkan (stage name of Florinda Soares Bolcão) – Brazilian actress.
Garcia Escudero (José María García Escudero, 1916-2002) – Spanish journalist, writer, and film historian.
GGeorges Sadoul (1904-1967) – French film critic and historian.
HHenry Agel (1911-2008) – French historian and film critic.
HHenry Miller (Henry Valentine Miller, 1891-1980) – American writer.
HAlbert Read (sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) – English art critic and historian.
JJean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) – French writer and screenwriter.
JJean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) – Franco-Swiss filmmaker and film critic.
LLouis Delluc (1890-1924) – French critic and filmmaker.
LLouise Brooks (Mary Louise Brooks, 1906-1985) – American actress and dancer.
LLouis Lumière (1864-1948) – French industrialist.
Louis Malle (1932-1995) – French filmmaker.
MEl Gibson (Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson) – American actor and filmmaker.
Moussinac (Léon Pierre Guillaume Moussinac, 1890-1964) – writer, critic and French film historian.
NElson Rodrigues (Nelson Falcão Rodrigues, 1912-1980) – writer, journalist and Brazilian playwright.
R. F. Lucchetti (Rubens Francisco Lucchetti, 1930-2024) – fiction writer and screenwriter of Movies & Comics.
SSalvador Dalí (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1904-1989) – Spanish painter recognized for his surrealist works.

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