Quotes About Films

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

Oddly, our mall had a small movie theater that showed foreign and independent films. I loved going there, loved how what I saw often confused or embarrassed me, how the movies there made me think in ways that only books did.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small number of films as a professional composer gets used to that idea pretty quickly.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

You know how children are, sometimes they love you by cuddling you, other times by trying to remake you from the start, reinvent you, as if they thought you were badly brought up and they had to teach you how to get on in the world, what music to listen to, what books to read, what films to see, the words you should use and those you shouldn't because they're old now, no one says that anymore.

The mix of soft-focus glamour, Mills and Boon romance and the inevitable feel-good ending is here, but what marks these films is an authentic core. Genuine, unaffected moments, long absent from 70mm movie content, are back.

Aguirre: The Wrath of God influenced many films including Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Terrence Malick's The New World. This is epic cinema.

If Disney was a mouthpiece for an American way of life, the force of his voice depended on a curious obsession with death."[6] Virtually every one of his most famous films focused on the subject, from Snow White to Pinocchio.

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they'll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they say they want.

My access point to the '70s is films from that time, and they all have that paranoiac quality.

I am keen to do quality films; it is not quantity that I am looking at.

Obviously I will try to do 4 films a year, but more than quantity, quality is what matters to me.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.