Quotes About Film

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie mich jetzt wiedererkennen würden.

Embryos are like photograph film, said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door. They can only stand red light. And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon.

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

violent content in the film clips actually impaired participants' memories of the products

Those who view greater amounts of violent television and film portrayals of many kinds tend to engage in higher levels of aggressive behavior.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

When I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too ' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

And we were making a film I truly believed in, and the message of the film is "How do you make love stay?" Because it doesn't matter if someone has a memory or not, you have to reinvent love every day.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.