Quotes About Film

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

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

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about "shit". It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.

When Gilchrist and Sweeney aren't debating the odds of getting Goldie Hawn into bed, they are trying to stump each other with film quotes.

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

A dirty word in the film business right now is intelligence.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Nimic nu e mai strâmb ?i mai fals decât o literatur? sau un film care înf??i?eaz? doar o lume uniform sinistr?. Pân? ?i în vie?ile cele mai întunecate exist? zile luminoase, plimb?ri pe malul apei ?i speran?e de fericire.

En général, vous savez, les gens, les femmes, me plaisent pour des raisons extérieurs, des raisons qui n'ont rien à voir avec elles, posées sur elles comme une robe de chambre ou un manteau qu'on peut poser sur une autre. Une femme me plait par exemple, parce-qu'elle a joué dans un film de Bresson ou bien parce-qu'un homme que j'admire est amoureux d'elle.

Every edit is a lie.

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely criticize American morals and values.

this film taps perfectly into the viewers' sense of the world. It was a big, big hit, and one of Hollywood's best-remembered marriage movies, although by grounding itself in trendy political issues, it avoids ordinary day-to-day marital problems. Its bottom line is, however, marry your own kind.

Excellent films do exist on the subject, however, and one is a pure marriage movie in which Newman and Woodward make it work. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge exists to tell moviegoers that the marriage of their parents—especially if they were those tragic dogsbodies, Midwesterners—were fogbound. The film depicts a steady relationship that has no real communication between its couple

Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.

I always feel that a man and a woman, who do not like the same films, will eventually divorce.

If black actors played in a film, they had to appear in unimportant scenes which could be cut without problem when these films were shown in the Southern states.