693 Quotes About Film

If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen...

Observation is a dying art.

Acting, like love, is a lonely pursuit.

Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

It's something of a parodox that film, the art that most resembles ourdaydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.