Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
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Related The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is ... BIPASHA BASU You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I... BILL SKARSGARD For Greek cinema, this is a very high-budget film. Hollywood producers, as they have done throughout... NEOVI KARAKATSANIS Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinem... GEOFF DYER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always ha... WONG KAR-WAI Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain... JEAN-LUC GODARD The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, i... JILL SOLOWAY A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL That Norway has fallen to 18th place is not good, but you are still among the 20 best nations. The s... MARC LEVY I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his ci... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI In the early 1990s, if you told somebody you were a curler, they probably wouldn't know what you wer... JAMIE KORAB I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morr... GABRIEL MANN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces ... MIA WASIKOWSKA the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter ... GAVIN HOOD I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good f... ERIQ LA SALLE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's ... BOMAN IRANI Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars... WERNER HERZOG I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird. JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Maybe we're doing something right, ... I don't mean to sound greedy, but my only regret is that a co... MARK URMAN If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa... MARGARET THATCHER I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local t... KATHERINE DUNHAM Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee... CARLO PONTI Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cine... CRISPIN GLOVER The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarshi... BOBBY BURTON (Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarshi... BURTON There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind ... KATRINA KAIF Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'... OLAV THON After the Revolution in '49, all the films were propaganda. They serviced the government and car... WONG KAR-WAI The Romeo-and-Juliet type of film writing is not so successful in TV because it is such a small medi... HENRY MANCINI I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on ... EDGAR RAMIREZ We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev... C. JOYBELL C. When the week begins, think of how you will end it. When the week ends, think of how you did begin i... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they ha... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see... SALMAN KHAN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the American... YAHOO SERIOUS
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