Film Quotes
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Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.
Astra Taylor -
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
Cate Blanchett
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I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.
Sandra Cisneros -
Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."
David Bowie -
There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
Paul Newman -
I believe that anyone who chooses a path and keeps walking will find a positive result some day. I didn't want to go with the flow and do any kind of film that came my way and wind up my career swiftly.
Harshvardhan Rane -
Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.
Catherine Hardwicke -
I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
Hayao Miyazaki
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But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?
Mike Leigh -
Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.
Casey Robinson -
I do only one film at a time.
R. Madhavan -
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
Stanley Kubrick -
I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.
Jud Tylor -
While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.
Chika Anadu
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To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
Sean Bean -
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.
Stanley Kubrick -
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
Nick Moran -
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
Tom Hanks -
On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
Sung Kang -
When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.
Etgar Keret
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I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
Michael Pitt -
I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"
Luc Besson -
Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
Sofia Coppola