Best 3577 quotes in «film quotes» category

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Close-Up has affected later films that I've made.

Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn't really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

Digital distribution is a whole other way of communicating with your fans and giving them content at their leisure. It's like, there are people making music in their igloos on their PDAs. You're going to see the exact same thing with film.

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

"Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

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.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.