Bertrand Tavernier quotes
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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 TavernierSource : "Ingmar Bergman, Master Filmmaker, Dies at 89" by Mervyn Rothstein, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2007.
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“I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.”
Source : Cinema in India, p. 37, 1991.
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“Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?”
Source : Allison Pearson (2004). “I don't know how she does it: the life of Kate Reddy, working mother”
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“Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.”
Source : Charles Perrault, Sally Holmes (1993). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.”
Source : "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, III, 6, 1779.
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