Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.”
Comparing film and stage theatre in "The Divine Comedy" (1977)
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“Normal civilized people don’t abuse the way we see in films.”
On the depiction of verbal abuse in films, as quoted in " Pahlaj Nihalani: Normal people don’t abuse the way we see in films http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/normal-people-dont-abuse-the-way-we-see-in-films-pahlaj-nihalani/" The Indian Express (29 January 2015)
Shahrukh Khan
(1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Komal Nahta
“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
W.B. Yeats
(1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“…When we see a film, half of what we see is what we bring to it…”
Alfre Woodard
(1952) American film, stage, and television actress
On how audiences receive a film (such as the film 12 Years a Slave in which Woodard starred in) in “In Praise of the One-Scene Performance: An Interview with Alfre Woodard” https://www.popmatters.com/176250-in-praise-of-the-one-scene-performance-an-interview-with-alfre-wooda-2495711026.html in Pop Matters (2013 Nov 7)
Mattie Do
(1981) Laotian film director
『永遠の散歩』Q&A マティー・ドー | "The Long Walk[Bor Mi Vanh Chark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfFCgPzBUag" Q&A Mattie Do (Director) - 7 Nov 2019, at 23 Min 27 Sec]
From Tokyo International Film Festival Q&A
Horace Mann
(1796–1859) American politician
Sir Thomas Browne, as quoted by The Pleasures of Life (1891), by John Lubbock, p. 11
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