693 Quotes About Film

Making a movie is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood.

It is no longer about letting imaginary things become reality, but rather about letting things, just as they are, become as meaningful as possible.

Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

Horror is a curiousity, it's used we to go over on real horror it just prepare us for the hard battles. To laugh at somebody's harm... there is even and scientific explanation.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Only the past is real.

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen; you just had to feel something.