Quote by Raymond Chandler
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating ad

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. – Raymond Chandler

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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. – Raymond Chandler

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The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they dont smell. The food is unreal, it doesnt taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert. – Ethel Barrymore

The 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 doesnt. – Jean-Luc Godard

Curiosity doesnt matter any more. These days people dont want to be transported to emotional territories where they dont know how to react. – Hector Babenko

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