I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
– Francis Ford CoppolaThe cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
– GodardThe film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
– Francois Truffaut