Movie Quotes - Page 8

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

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

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

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

The road goes ever on and on

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I feel the need... the need for speed.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"