Film Quotes

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

I've never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.