Quotes About Film

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.

I wore a merkin for my full frontal scene in Billy Bathgate.

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.

She would take control of her dreaming and make it work for her, like a film director, creating a movie in which she was both the scriptwriter and the leading actor.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

hava karar?yordu. kö?eden bir genç k?zla bir genç adam göründü kolkola. delikanl? bir ?eyler anlat?yordu, genç k?z da ba??n? sall?yordu. "bana kal?rsa film biraz kar???kt?," dedi genç adam. "baz? yerlerini anlamad?m." "can?m," dedi k?z, "sonunda çocuk ölüyor i?te." "aptal," dedi delikanl?, "o kadar?n? biz de anlad?k.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I got that good a contract because I really didn't want to make a film.

La película habría de filmarse en las vísperas de la elección de 1960, en medio de una ferviente fiebre anticomunista producida por el triunfo de la Revolución cubana y Wayne dejó clara su posición: quería una historia que pudiera «vender el ideal estadounidense a los países amenazados por la dominación comunista» y en el film se repite varias veces la frase «soportar la opresión o rendirse

La relación de la futura guerra de Texas con Hollywood fue siempre una relación amorosa. Sobre esta guerra se han filmado más películas y documentales que sobre cualquier otro hecho bélico de la futura leyenda estadounidense.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

There, onscreen, he was crossing a hotel corridor, and I thought it really strange that one could pass from a world in which everything ended to another, freed from the laws of gravity, in which you were suspended for all eternity: from that evening on Rue Froidevaux, of which nothing remained except the fading echoes in my memory, to those several seconds captured on film, in which Deckers would cross a hotel corridor until the end of time.

It was unsettling to imagine it alone on the bench without a film, unable to record its own passage into the hands of a stranger.