Film Quotes

No one can be the total cure for another person.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

I would say music, film, and talented people inspire me.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

You cant expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.