Movie Quotes - Page 3

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Above all things I believe in love.

When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.