Quotes About Cinema

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.

A good film is also a documentary

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.