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I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

Maurice Jarre

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

James Iha

Cinema

Partnership

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Life

Cinema

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Lasse Hallstrom

Cinema

Economy

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Conrad Hall

History

Cinema

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard