Film Quotes

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

Film is not a form, it has forms

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

Western films don't do very well in India.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

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.

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.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.