Film Quotes - Page 6

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

The best education in film is to make one

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.