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Craig Benzine Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“Film is this unique artistic medium that can take different meaning depending on when, where, and with whom you're watching it.”
— Craig Benzine, The Lumiere Brothers: Crash Course Film History #3
Tagged: Films, Movie, Movie Experience
“We're all hardwired to make sense of the world by telling and being told stories.”
— Craig Benzine, Georges Melies- Master of Illusion: Crash Course Film History #4
Tagged: Stories
“Film presents us with the illusion of reality. And like any good magic trick or optical illusion, part of the thrill is knowing that what you're seeing isn't real, but not being able to tell how the magician pulled it off.”
— Craig Benzine, The Lumiere Brothers: Crash Course Film History #3
Tagged: Films, Movie
“Film is an illusion, but it's an illusion that's carefully crafted by people who want to show a specific point of view. With aesthetic choices from shot angle and shot size to lens type and lighting style and how much hair you put on a wookie - filmmakers can further affect how we, as an audience, interpret reality.”
— Craig Benzine, Movies are Magic: Crash Course Film History #1
Tagged: Movie, Motion Pictures
“Think of those flip books you played with as a kid; take a series of still pictures, shot or drawn in sequence, flip them quickly before your eyes and, voila! The illusion of motion. You have yourself a "motion picture," or a "moving picture." In other words, a moving-picturey. Better yet, a "movie." Write that down, that's what we're going with.”
— Craig Benzine, Movies are Magic: Crash Course Film History #1
Tagged: Movie, Etymology
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