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Film Quotes - Page 18

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Esquire magazine, February 1961.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

"Jack Nicholson: The Ultimate Viewing Guide". Interview with Adam Smith, www.empireonline.com. July 22, 2014.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

Christian Metz (2015). “Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film”, p.11, Columbia University Press

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

"Charlie Hunnam Talks DEADFALL, SONS OF ANARCHY Season 5, PACIFIC RIM, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for WB and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

"The saint: Yves Saint Laurent". Interview with Susannah Frankel, www.dazeddigital.com. March 2000.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated