Film Quotes

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so w...

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you...

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly t...

Minus: Papa, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality burst open. Do you understand...

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything...

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment...

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...

Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’...

Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there i...

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened c...

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe’s oldest families, whose roots can...

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which w...

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fear...

It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder wh...

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and s...

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own inter...

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one ...

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the gr...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

Kodachrome... it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think al...

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason t...

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slippin...

...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be for...

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer ...

Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these thi...

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all ...

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience f...

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to...

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar s...

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it sto...

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... p...

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you c...

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Down the steps,...over the corpses,...careers the pram with the child.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire...

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what,...

Observation is a dying art.

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstor...

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows . It's a very ...

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on '...

The film libraries on some of these channels." Elmina said. "I swear. There was one on last night. I...

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimi...

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...

Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the ...

Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open u...

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

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is...

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony ...

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious...

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra...

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are s...

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...

I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depress...

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a ...

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful t...

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. Wh...

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more i...

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys aw...

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alterna...

...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself,...

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch ...

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in p...