Quotes About Film

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.