Film Quotes

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

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 VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

Film lovers are sick people.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.