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Quotes About Film

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?
~ Luis Bunuel
Idea For A Short Documentary Film Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.
~ Lydia Davis
I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
~ Lynn Collins
Pastor Hall was not the first anti-Nazi film to be barred by the board; in the previous two years, it had prohibited at least seven other such movies from being shown. At the same time, however, it allowed the release of Feldzug in Polen, a propaganda film produced by the German government that depicted the Wehrmacht's vanquishing of Poland in 1939 and portrayed Poland as the aggressor.
~ Unknown
Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime—the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.
~ John Irving
The Harry Lime Theme"—
~ John Irving
The Third Man Theme
~ John Irving
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.
~ John Kennedy Toole
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teenage beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard. In addition, I suffered through two nightmares last night, one involving a Scenicruiser bus. The other involved a girl of my acquaintance. It was rather brutal and obscene. If I described it to you, you would no doubt become frightened.
~ John Kennedy Toole
The cancer was pretty well-advanced, already storming her lymph nodes, and it resisted the radiation and the chemo like some kind of unstoppable beast in a low-grade horror film.
~ Unknown
I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.
~ Morgan Freeman
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
~ Kim Jong Il
Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.
~ Lillian Gish
I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.
~ Salman Rushdie
Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.
~ Unknown
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
~ Hugh Grant
If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.
~ Michael Pitt
'Son of Saul' film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.
~ Bun B
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.
~ Drake Doremus
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
~ Roger Ebert
It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.
~ Milos Forman
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
~ Alex North
I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
~ Danny Boyle