Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, … - Costa-Gavras

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

Costa-Gavras

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

Years, People, Cinema, Time, Entertainment

Same Author Quotes

Every time you have a crisis in a country you have an extreme wing coming up and proposing solutions. The way to fight them is by doing lots of work teaching people that every time these fascist systems gained power they ended up with big tragedies - lots of blood, lots of police, and lots of misery.

Country, Fighting, Power, Teaching, Wing

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

Becoming, Money, More Money, Religion

Cinema has changed the world. If you go to the beginning of the cinema, you can see that the world started meeting other worlds. It was extraordinary. We saw how other people were living and thinking. How they were sad or happy. We also saw the body - naked or half-naked people, which was prohibited everywhere by religions. This was extremely important.

Body, Extremely, Other Worlds, People, Thinking

The assistants in France are not like they are in the States. Assistants are much more close to the film directors, and they used to have a kind of very artistic task. They used to do the casting, scouting, and so forth.

Artistic, Casting, Close, Film, Forth, Kind

I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.

Becoming, Important, Money, Same, Saw, Saws