Film Quotes
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.
I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene
I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.
I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.
If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.
What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
