Exploring Cinema: The Frames That Shape Our Reality

“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”

• 「電影的奧妙在於畫面內外的取捨。」

“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”

• 「你的任務是讓觀眾對你的執著產生共鳴。」

“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime, we need to keep them alive.”

• 「電影觸動人心，喚醒視野，改變我們看待世界的方式。它們帶我們進入不同的世界，打開心靈之門。電影是我們一生的記憶，我們必須讓它們永存。」

“Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work anymore. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred… The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.”

• 「暴力並非解決之道，它已不再奏效。我們正處於最糟糕的世紀之末，世界上發生了前所未有的暴行……人類的本質必須改變，我們必須培養愛與慈悲。」

“And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”

• 「隨著年歲增長，我越來越傾向於尋找那些以善良、寬容、同情心生活的人，他們用更溫柔的方式看待世界。」

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”

• 「現在比以往任何時候都更需要彼此對話、傾聽，並理解彼此的世界觀，而電影是實現這一切的最佳媒介。」

“You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.”

• 「你無法在教堂裡贖罪。你需要在街頭、在家中贖罪。其他都是空談，你心知肚明。」

“If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than the Western, the Gangster Film, and the Musical.”

• 「如果你想探索美國電影文化的根源，只需看看西部片、黑幫片和音樂劇。」

“The most personal is the most creative.”

• 「最個人的，往往是最具創造力的。」

“I love studying ancient history and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

• 「我熱愛研究古代歷史，觀察帝國如何興衰，並埋下自我毀滅的種子。」

CREDIT: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12133.Martin_Scorsese