I am looking for pithy quotes that hearken to the emotive power of
film. Might you be able to find a selection of 3 such quotes?

I've always liked this quote from "A Clockwork Orange":

"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real
when you viddy them on the screen."

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give
many kinds of pleasure.
Frederico Fellini, Atlantic Monthly, December 1965

You can?t overthrow régimes through movies, but it can help.
Juan Antonio Bardem, July 1978

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way
film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark
rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman, quoted by John Berger: 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye' in
Sight and Sound, BFI, June 1991

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience
without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must
be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
Carl Jung, quoted in Roger Manvell: Film, Penguin Books, 1944

The film is the greatest teacher because it teaches us not only
through the brain but through the whole body.
Vsevolod I Pudovkin, quoted in Prof C H Waddington: ?Two conversations
with Pudovkin? in Sight and Sound, Winter 1948/49

All quotations from http://www.terramedia.co.uk/quotations/index.htm

Perhaps Andy Warhol saw "Clockwork Orange" (1971)??

"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is
unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's
unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when
things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you
don't feel anything."

Andy Warhol, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again" (1977)