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Brigitte Bardot:\u00a0<\/strong>Cinema is a kind of gilded prison.
Beyonc\u00e9:\u00a0<\/strong>Cinema is this strange beast, where we shoot pieces and only see the result months later.
Louis Delluc:<\/strong> Cinema is painting in motion.
RF Lucchetti: <\/strong>Cinema is the art of expression through images.
Louis Lumi\u00e8re:<\/strong>\u00a0This invention has no future whatsoever.
Mel Gibson:\u00a0<\/strong>Independent cinema is the future.
Henry Miller<\/strong>I would welcome with open arms the day when Cinema replaces Literature, when there is no longer any need to read.
Herbert Read:\u00a0<\/strong>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.
N<\/strong>Elson Rodrigues:<\/strong> Cinema isn't quite an art form yet. Maybe in six thousand years it will be.
Georges Sadoul:\u00a0<\/strong>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\u2026 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 \u2013 creators, technicians, workers \u2013 have to work for weeks and months\u2026 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.
Garc\u00eda Escudero<\/strong>There 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 Lumi\u00e8re Brothers (Auguste and Louis), failed to see this. When Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s wanted to buy their invention, they disappointed him. \u201c"It's not for sale, young man. And thank us for it. Apart from its scientific interest, it has no commercial value."\u201d<\/i>
Louise Brooks:<\/strong> 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:<\/strong>\u00a0Cinema is superficial, harsh, and unfair.<\/p>\n

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Brigitte Bardot, in a scene from the film that made her famous, <\/i>And God... created woman. (<\/i>Et Dieu\u2026 Cr\u00e9a la Femme, 1956)<\/i>.<\/em><\/p>\n

J<\/strong><\/i>Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re:<\/strong> An American critic, who viewed the camera as a device capable of converting space into time and vice versa, soberly referred to Cinema as\u00a0\u201c"the greatest philosophical undertaking since Kant"\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Florinda Bolkan:\u00a0 <\/strong>The film industry lacks logic.
Louis Malle:<\/b>\u00a0I believe that cinema lends itself very little to psychological subtleties within a sociological context.
Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/strong>Contrary 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:\u00a0<\/strong>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<\/i>\u00a0in Los Angeles.
Jean-Luc Godard: <\/strong>I eagerly await the end of cinema.
Henry Miller:\u00a0<\/strong>What I deplore most is that the art of filmmaking has never been properly explored.
Moussinac:\u00a0<\/strong>Cinema will only reach the pinnacle of its discovery when people reach the pinnacle of freedom.
Henri Agel:\u00a0<\/strong>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\u2026 they will also understand that its fundamental role is to transmit to us the dream or stream of thought of a creator.<\/p>\n

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WHO'S WHO
B<\/strong><\/b>Eyonc\u00e9<\/b> (Beyonc\u00e9 Giselle Knowles-Carter) \u2013 American singer, dancer, and actress.
B<\/strong>Rigite Bardot<\/b> (Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot) \u2013 French actress, model and activist.
D<\/strong>Uhamel<\/b> (Georges Duhamel, 1884-1966) \u2013 French writer.
F<\/strong>Lorinda Bolkan<\/b> (stage name of Florinda Soares Bolc\u00e3o) \u2013 Brazilian actress.
G<\/strong>arcia Escudero<\/b> (Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Garc\u00eda Escudero, 1916-2002) \u2013 Spanish journalist, writer, and film historian.
G<\/strong>Georges Sadoul<\/b> (1904-1967) \u2013 French film critic and historian.
H<\/strong>Henry Agel<\/b> (1911-2008) \u2013 French historian and film critic.
H<\/strong>Henry Miller<\/b> (Henry Valentine Miller, 1891-1980) \u2013 American writer.
H<\/strong>Albert Read<\/b> (sir<\/i> Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) \u2013 English art critic and historian.
J<\/strong>Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re<\/b> (1931-2021) \u2013 French writer and screenwriter.
J<\/strong>Jean-Luc Godard<\/b> (1930-2022) \u2013 Franco-Swiss filmmaker and film critic.
L<\/strong>Louis Delluc<\/b> (1890-1924) \u2013 French critic and filmmaker.
L<\/strong>Louise Brooks<\/b> (Mary Louise Brooks, 1906-1985) \u2013 American actress and dancer.
L<\/strong>Louis Lumi\u00e8re<\/b> (1864-1948) \u2013 French industrialist.
L<\/strong>ouis Malle<\/b> (1932-1995) \u2013 French filmmaker.
M<\/strong>El Gibson<\/b> (Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson) \u2013 American actor and filmmaker.
M<\/strong>oussinac<\/b> (L\u00e9on Pierre Guillaume Moussinac, 1890-1964) \u2013 writer, critic and\u00a0French film historian.
N<\/strong><\/span>Elson Rodrigues<\/b> (Nelson Falc\u00e3o Rodrigues, 1912-1980) \u2013 writer, journalist and\u00a0Brazilian playwright.
R<\/strong><\/span>. F. Lucchetti<\/b> (Rubens Francisco Lucchetti, 1930-2024) \u2013 fiction writer and screenwriter of\u00a0Movies & Comics.
S<\/strong><\/span>Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/b> (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal\u00ed i Dom\u00e8nech, 1904-1989) \u2013\u00a0Spanish painter recognized for his surrealist works.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marco Aur\u00e9lio Lucchetti is a university professor and film researcher.,
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