Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. Meryl Streep
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poets and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. Daphne du Maurier
In painting, the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema, the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. Sergei Eisenstein

Film history: Focus on film criticism

From the very beginning of movies, at the time when Thomas Alva Edison’s little toy gave birth to […]