Bertrand Tavernier famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
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Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
-- Bertrand Tavernier
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
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I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
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I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales
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In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?
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Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?
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Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.
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I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.
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It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
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