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Vigorous writing is concise.


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My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct.
Bob Sheppard
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.


David Lynch
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For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.


Fritz Lang
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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.


Antonio Banderas
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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.


Lasse Hallstrom
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I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.


Eric Cantona
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I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.


Richard Attenborough
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
Louis Leterrier
I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.


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As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.


Shah Rukh Khan
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When I go to the cinema I watch all different kinds of films.


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


Alfred Hitchcock
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People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Harvey Weinstein
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Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.


Anthony Minghella
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During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.


Francois Truffaut
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I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.


Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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