Film Quotes

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...

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the f...

Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each...

I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that peop...

It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning mac...

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come ...

And we hate this possibility in movies; we hate this "both" shit. "Both" comes off as sloppy charact...

I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it r...

AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony wher...

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your he...

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your he...

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instan...

Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not alwa...

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if the...

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yea...

It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and st...

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

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an e...

Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about...

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 ...