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Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with camera, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effect. Films are cultural artifact created by specific culture, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating — or... full article at wikipedia

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quotation	author	source	spoken by character (if from fictional work)
I'll Be Back	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	The Terminator
Hello, I Must Be Going	Groucho Marx	Animal Crackers	Captain Spaulding
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.	Andy Warhol
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.	Orson Welles
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.	Alfred Hitchcock
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.	Alfred Hitchcock
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.	Samuel Goldwyn
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.	Susan Sontag
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.	Samuel Goldwyn
Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?	Samuel Goldwyn
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