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[ Felicia Day] is really figured it all out, and it was impressive. It was nothing like our set, because her set was like working on a real film.

F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.

Film is a pretty poor medium to deliver a message. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to ask a lot of questions and hopefully you can draw your own conclusions about whatever meaning might be there or what point there is; but I was conscious of wanting to create something that for a lack of a better word had a positivity and earned that.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Film is a director's medium, and a film set is a complicated military structure - I have to keep reminding myself to stay in my place, or all will burst into chaos.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Film, I think, is my medium.

Film lovers are sick people.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer do this for a large percentage of films. The odds that your film will get a major campaign are dim these days. So you must find and nurture your own audience and make sure your film has a life.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK. When I was at drama school in the UK, I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, "We've taught you Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare, you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

Film is a battleground.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.