Quotes About Film

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.