693 Quotes About Film

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

I want a film which really hurts your eyes.

These are the facts of pre-Code Hollywood. The story behind it is monumental, because it deals with struggle for power. The stakes were high: the billion-dollar market for America's sixth-largest industry. The market was mostly Protestant. The industry was mostly Jewish-run. Yet a Midwest Catholic minority gained control. This is the story of *Forbidden Hollywood.*

Herkesin hayatı bir film olabilir ama bu tür filmlerin çoğu sıkıcı olacaktır!

When they weren't on the beach or sailing, Alicia and Jack were indoors, usually in the basement watching movies. Alicia missed so many important films during those frightening years.

Film is dead, long live cinema.

Make films, not war.

I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them. I have respect for literature.

Every film or drama, no matter based on the sad, happy or humorous story, has its end. Similarly, life events and affairs of any kind, have an ending; nothing is everlasting.