Quotes About Art

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I don't consider myself - and I hope I'm never going to be - a 'movie star.' I'd like to be called an actor.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I make movies I want to see.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.