Film Quotes
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with a smile.
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.
There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.
I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.
I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.
I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.
As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.