Film Quotes

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

We look at it as the multiverse. We have our TV universe and our film universe, but they all co-exist.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.

Morocco: Looks better in films.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.