Film Quotes - Page 13

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

I’ve never done a film for the money

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.