Film Quotes - Page 8

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.