Quotes About Film

With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'

'Intermission' was my favourite film.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

Film taught me an enormous amount about the internal life a performance has to have, and that life has to be real. You can fake it on stage, but not for the camera.

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response.

Having a couple of films that were successful internationally has made the film community aware of the films coming out of Greece.

This is the launch of the 'Doctor Strange' film interpretation of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists, and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

Barbara Stanwyck, in particular, was peerless in everything from high and low comedy to drama to musicals to film noir. She never took a false step.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Que es exactamente lo que mi madre no desea: que su sufrimiento y el de sus hijos le sirva de material a un escritor para que componga su libro o al director de cine para que ruede su película, y los aplaudan después, y ganen premios, mientras nosotros seguimos con nuestra tragedia a cuestas.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

I never understood the meaning of a film. I am very concrete. I only understand what is on the screen. In my whole life, I have never understood a single symbol.

The camera should never anticipate what's about to follow.

Suspense is simply the dramatization of a film's narrative, or if you will, the most intense presentation possible of dramatic situations.

The art of creating suspense is also the art of involving the audience, so that the viewer is actually a participant in the film.

Anyone can be a film critic. The apprentice supposedly need not possess a tenth of the knowledge that would be demanded of a critic of literature, music or painting. A director must live with the fact that his work will be called to judgment by someone who has never seen a film of Murnau's.

In certain respects, the contexts, aspirations and communicative mechanisms of film and theatre are divergent and their distinctions partially explain why the latter has been somewhat less vigorously challenged on its adaptive practices, but correspondingly also why theatre as a critical discipline has supported, rather than vitally shaped, the advance of adaptation studies.

ein film wie rainman heitert die gemuter auf er sagt aber nichts von dem totalen chaos reichlicher angst und die unsagbare traurigkeit und einsamkeit in uns dieser film zeigt eine fassade zum zwecke der unterhaltung ich will einem film mit jamlia machen der in die tiefen der autistenwelt inansteigt er soll aufdecken und gute analytische innere dinge im gedanken und gefuhlsleven arbeit leisten ich freue mich aus die arbeit an dem film

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.