Quotes About Film

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

Daniel wanted to laugh. They all looked both sinister and ridiculous, like a horror-film family of vampires waiting for prey.

The Grand Illusion, one of the great war films of all time.

Cinema Is Love 24 Times Per Second

My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?

I believe that the purpose of cinema is to entertain. The so-called geniuses may have given new meanings to it, but for those who developed cinema, the aim was to entertain.

Veer Zaara' changed people's outlook towards me. It was my first so-called commercial film.

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

Growing up where I did, I came from a politically progressive family so I was aware of social issues, but it seemed like a very separate thing from film.

The reason that I met my wife was because the lockout of '99. There were about six months where there was no film and no work and I had a social life.

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

When people tell me that my films make them smile, I feel like I'm doing a social service by making these light-hearted comedy movies.

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.