"The cinema? Three cheers for darkened rooms" (Preface, Flashback: A Brief History of Film, pg. ix.)

"It was Langolois's contention that, like the continent of North America before Columbus, which geographers knew had to be there, the movies always existed; they were just waiting to be invented" (Chapter 1, Flashback: A Brief History of Film, pg. 4.)

"Movies could now go anywhere the human mind could conceive" (Chapter 2, Flashback: A Brief History of Film, pg. 31.)

"Without enthusiasm, there is no cinema, there are no films, there is nothing. There must be enthusiasm and it must be communicated like a flame - the cinema is a flame in the shadows. If one does not feel it, one cannot transmit it" (Chapter 2, Flashback: A Brief History of Film, pg. 76.)

"Movies could now go anywhere the human mind could conceive" (Chapter 2, Flashback: A Brief History of Film, pg. 31.)

"A film is a ribbon...