The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

O horário é um triturador de lembranças

Do you know anything about silent films?"
"Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.