Film Quotes
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
Andre Bazin
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson
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I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.
Mike Leigh
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.
Julia Roberts
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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
Ving Rhames
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
Andre Bazin
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
Ang Lee
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
Vera Farmiga
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
Edgar Wright
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
John Travolta
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
Ira Sachs
