693 Quotes About Film

One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I started writing this book, were directed by men. In sixty-two years, we have improved gender equality in American film directing by four percent. At this rate, we'll be colonizing Mars before we see an qual number of female directors.

L'oeil superficiel, l'oreille profonde et inventive. Le sifflement d'une locomotive imprime en nous la vision de toute une gare.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Once you enter into nature and participate from the inside instead of as a visitor from the outside ... then we will intuitively know how to make a living in the world, how to feed ourselves and give ourselves shelter in a way which also allows other forms of life to live.

I hate to break it to charlie, but no matter how hard an artist or entertainer tries to claim their work isn't political, it simply means their ignorant about the politics it perpetuates, their in denial about the politics it perpetrates, or.....(groans)

The most important part of making a film is the script. It's not the actual shooting the film. The technicians know their jobs, the cameraman knows his job, the director knows his job. It's what he is going to shoot, and whether or not a company is successful depends on what they choose to shoot, and that's all there is to it.

Images have always been a form of haunting, but when film arrived it became possible to see the dead walking and talking, something previously only conceivable in the realms of witchcraft and myth, and though film has never lost its trace of the occult we have always attempted to tame, control or disguise it.

Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

Remember the start of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Bunch of monkeys collecting bones. What‘s that got to do with space? They don‘t even have lasers!Cut that shit. And what about Citizen Kane? If they‘d wanted to gross some dollar, they should‘ve called it Dude, Where‘s My Sled?