Film and Theatre
(Cultural Studies)

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking - it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles.