Cinema of Germany/1895-1918 German Empire

Famous quotes containing the words cinema, germany, german and/or empire:

    “The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
    —Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)

    “By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, to-day in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bĂȘte noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!”
    —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

    “Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.”
    —Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)

    “The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.”
    —Ken Dodd (b. 1931)