I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
quote by Lars von Trier
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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
quote by John Lasseter
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I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.
quote by Joss Whedon
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Medium
Medium, medium.
Waking up I smell the scent of coffee on the brew,
And I think about the amount of the sweet,
Id like to have in my cup today.
One for the two lump, three lump, four.
No half of one, no less no more.
Just give me a chance, let me make it mine.
Id like a medium blend of that piece of pie.
Not too bitter, not too sweet... medium.
Just enough to ? ? ? ... medium.
Not too bitter, not too sweet... medium.
Just enough to ? ? ? ... medium.
Dinner time just rolls around,
And I think I crave a steak but,
Im not too partial to the meat,
When its cooked too long and Im made to wait.
Not too much of the parsony,
And just enough of the spice.
I think Id enjoy a medium-rare dish with a side of fries.
Not too tender, not too tough... medium.
Not too little, just enough... medium.
Not too tender, not too tough... medium.
Not too little, just enough... medium.
Medium. medium. medium. medium. just a medium. medium.
? ? ? and I smell the pits but ? ? ? ? ? .
I couldve sworn a ? ? ? last week and scrubbed like ? ? ? .
I like to stink just a little bit,
Just to keep you on your toes yes.
The more I stink the more I think,
That you smell like a rose.
Not too pleasant, not too bad... medium.
Just enough to hold my ? ? ? ... medium.
Not too pleasant, not too bad... medium.
Just enough to hold my ? ? ? ... medium.
Medium. medium. medium. medium. medium. medium.
song performed by by Incubus
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And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
quote by Anna Friel
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Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.
quote by Dennis Muren
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Cant Run Away
No, no, no, no
Can not run away baby, oh
I cant run away boy
I cant run away
Im telling you I cant run away
From what I am feeling
Feeling baby I cant run away
I think Im gonna stay and Im gonna love you
Until I cant love you no more
Oh baby the love that youre giving
Is more precious than my mind
Could ever be thinking
So there aint no sense in trying
Cause I know Ill never find
Another baby to give it to me like you do, hey
I cant run away boy
I cant run away
Im telling you I cant run away
From what I am feeling
Feeling baby I cant run away
I think Im gonna stay and Im gonna love you
Until I cant love you no more
Baby you know that Im craving
For the way that you touch me
Cause honey Im fiendin
I cant get you off my mind
Im thinkin bout you all the time
So Im gonna stay here
Until you give me what I want
I cant run away boy
I cant run away
Im telling you I cant run away
From what I am feeling
Feeling baby I cant run away
I think Im gonna stay and Im gonna love you
Until I cant love you no more
Hold me baby hold me close
Hold me dont you let me go
When I get home,
Im planning on turning you on
Cause baby I want you so
Body and soul Im yours
I cant run away boy
I cant run away
Im telling you I cant run away
From what I am feeling
Feeling baby I cant run away
I think Im gonna stay and Im gonna love you
Until I cant love you no more
I cant run away boy
I cant run away
Im telling you I cant run away
From what I am feeling
Feeling baby I cant run away
I think Im gonna stay and Im gonna love you
Until I cant love you no more
I, oh, oh, no, no, no, no
Gotta get away from what I am feeling
Im telling you baby
song performed by by Kelly Price
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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
quote by Karel Reisz
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
quote by Atom Egoyan
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I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
quote by Marguerite Moreau
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We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
quote by Bradley Whitford
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Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, "Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know." He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought "This story isn't too long." But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, "Uh-oh, this story is getting long." But then the story was over, and I said to myself "You know, that story wasn't too long after all." I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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I Wanna Live
I've been thinking it over
And I know just what to do
I've been thinking it over
And I know I just can't trust myself
I'm a Gypsy prince
Covered with diamonds and jewels
But then my lover exposes me
I know I'm just a damn fool
I give what I've got to give
I give what I need to live
I give what I've got to give
It's important if I want to live
I wanna live
I want to live my life
I wanna live
I want to live my life
As I load my pistol
Fine German steel
I never thought I'd be so down and out
Having my last meal
But I know I can do it
It just took a few years
As I execute my killer
The morning is near
I give what I've got to give
I give what I need to live
I give what I've got to give
It's important if I want to live
I wanna live
I want to live my life
I wanna live
I want to live my life
song performed by by Ramones from Halfway To Sanity
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
quote by Walt Disney
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Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
quote by Richard Foreman
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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
quote by John Sayles
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Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
quote by Martin Scorsese
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
quote by Bruce Nauman
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Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
quote by Sergio Aragones
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When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.