693 Quotes About Film

(Things I learned from Lorne Michaels) Producing is about discouraging creativity

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?

For me, water means a lot of things. It's my belief that human beings are just like plants. They can't live without water or they'll dry up. Human beings, without love or other nourishment, also dry up. The more water you see in my movies, the more the characters need to fill a gap in their lives, to get hydrated again.

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

Toni, you bring me luck. I'm gonna wear you like a charm.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.