693 Quotes About Film

To embody a slice of life on stage/film/script/book is awe-inspiring; like peeking into a window to the soul or prima materia

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

A good preview makes you want to see the whole movie.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.

But this is the ultimate contradiction of cinema. It's a medium BORN of technology, AFRAID of technology and evolving towards the future BECAUSE OF technology.