Quotes About Art

'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

I have not done any film where my role didn't make sense.

I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

I'd definitely like to do some more film acting.

I grew up loving film and television. Film, in particular. I would never feel as inspired - it's sort of the same for music with me as well, but I never got the same kind of feeling with music as I did with watching film.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

I do enjoy doing both film and television.

I like considering myself as someone in the film business.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

The film industry is incredible, and it's inspired a lot of people in the game industry.

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

I am in the film industry because I am passionate of films.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

I'm a believer in film school.