Film Quotes - Page 12

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that.

When you're working in the [film] industry and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Seeing the way that people hold themselves and compose themselves before a scene - it's inspirational.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.