Movie Mattness

"Cinema, at its most effective, is one scene effectively superceded by the next.  Isn't that it?"  -- George Stevens

"A film is never really good unless the camera is the eye in the head of a poet."  -- Orson Welles

"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."  -- Jean Cocteau

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."  -- Jim Morrison