Sound Film System

Famous quotes containing the words sound, film and/or system:

    “America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)