Quotes About Film

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

Film really is a collaborative art.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.