Quotes About Film

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

The tango reminds me of movies.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank's low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.

I didn't trust the film clips we'd been using to induce the emotions we wanted in infants (it takes a more developed comic sensibility to find bathing gorillas amusing, after all), so I decided to go with the basics: video clips of an actress laughing or crying.

On racial issues, though, he made no effort to adjust to modernity.143 When asked if he had seen the film Carmen Jones, a musical with a black cast, he replied that he had walked out early on as he didn't like 'blackamoors'.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

Camera goes direct to a camcorder with an LCD display.

Baggage included a tossed salad of books as well as hundreds of the more usual film spools. The entire family, save the twins, tended to be old-fashioned about books; they liked books with covers, volumes one could hold in the lap. Film spools were not quite the same.

Kind of makes me wonder. George Lucas, as noted earlier, could fake this on film, but I don't know of any existing technology that would fake it in several parts of a "real," "solid" town.

The great Soviet film director, Sergei Eisenstein, once wrote an essay claiming the camera is a liar. What did he mean by that? An old Zen Buddhist riddle asks Who is the Master who makes the grass green?

Liberalism, as in a "normal" Hollywood film, has triumphed over fascism, and we can all feel warm and fuzzy.

it was his choice. To be a witness, to observe, to let the events be recorded within himself on some personal film in some secret compartment no one knew about, except him.

The Burbank Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank.

Don't give me the evil eye. You were the one about to star in an X-rated porno flick.-Phineas

En ce jour où, pendant qu'ils regardaient un vieux film, Lemar lui a demandé s'il était déjà né quand le monde était en noir et blanc.

Once, watching an old film, Lemar had asked Idris if he had been alive back when the world was in black and white. The memory brings a smile. He kisses his sons' cheeks.

He had a face right out of film noir, a face meant to be shot in black and white, parallel shadows of venetian blinds slashing across it, a plume of cigarette smoke spiraling beside it.

See Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala for a vivid demonstration of why this is true.)

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.