693 Quotes About Film

Film lovers are sick people.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part.What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?