The difference between the two cinema titans is highlighted by what several longtime film workers in New Zealand referred to as "the two tea incidents".
It is clear, however, that despite all the similarities, there were important differences between the Bombay cinema and a film like "The Wizard of Oz".
Jean-Luc Godard once described the difference between cinema and television as the difference between raising your eyes to the movie screen and lowering them to the TV screen.
"It might seem that I made a big change from making movies," he said, "but I am still in the world of creation, and the only real difference between cinema and watches is that the U.S. is No. 1 in cinema, while for watches it is Switzerland".
"Greenway tried to explain the relationship and difference between cinema and painting in the 1990's when he was cutting and pasting elements into his frames.
Hooking young viewers accustomed to watching movies on computers and television is critical for a film culture that insists on the difference between cinema and screens.
It's the difference between theatre and cinema: politics used to be a stage, in which candidates performed with a rhetorical fervor and their conspicuous artifice was a source of ridicule.
So again, Greenway tried to depict this relationship, the difference between cinema and painting.
At times, the only difference between cinema and violent porn is that one has to pass under the eyes of a censoring board and the other gets instantly pressed to DVD or uploaded to the seedier corners of the internet.
The essential difference between cinema and theatre is that a movie actor can be plucked from the lunch counter at Schwab's (or, in Hedren's case, from a commercial on the "Today" show) and, without much technique, quickly become a screen idol.
