Film History Quotes
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.
I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.
You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.
It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.
If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?
