693 Quotes About Film

There's a line in David Lean's punishingly long 1962 desert flick, Lawrence of Arabia: 'Truly for some men nothing is written unless they write it.'Duh.

Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator/i>?

Is there any moment in time when you‘re doing something better than watching Predator?

Favorite film: the strip of black after it's over.

[Pauline Kael] had no theory, no rules, no guidelines, no objective standards. You couldn’t apply her ‘approach’ to a film. With her it was all personal.

The blacks have a song which says, 'I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.' No American film, relating to blacks, can possibly incorporate this observation.

If a picture is worth a thousand words then, film is immeasurable speech.

I want to wait for the end of the world on the seat of a movie theater.

...it is one thing for experimentation to take place: it is another for it to acquire critical mass – or, to use a different metaphor, for ripples to become a wave....One sign was the emergence or re-emergence of an international audience that actually sought out artistically challenging films.