Film Quotes - Page 7

• Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

  Christopher Nolan

  Hands, Way, Projects

  "CinemaCon: Christopher Nolan Talks 'Interstellar,' Plugs Film Over Digital in Hollywood Reporter Q&A" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 26, 2014.

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• The film is made in the editing room.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Editing, Rooms, Ingredients

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• If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

  Jacque Fresco

  Culture, Horror, Present Day

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• It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!

  Sienna Miller

  Judgement, Nervous, Judgement Day

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• No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

  Donal Logue

  Book, Thinking, Guy

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• Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

  John Dykstra

  Mean, Color, Digital

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• The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, School, Nurse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, People, Looks

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• The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

  Bill Murray

  Roles, Want, Lasts

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• We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

  Haskell Wexler

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

  Clint Eastwood

  Way, Feels, Audience

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• I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

  Billy Wilder

  Art, Looks, Television

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• We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  Albert Finney

  People, Groups, Alabama

  Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.

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• I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

  David Selby

  Way, Different, Television

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• There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

  Spike Lee

  Psych, Thinking, People

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  Zhang Yimou

  Chinese, Sticks, Language

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• There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Saving Private Ryan, Three, Proud

  "Broadcast Film critics name 'Saving Private Ryan' best film" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1999.

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• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Tools, Firsts, Emotion

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Escaping, Inspired, Designer

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Passion, Careers, Trying

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• Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  Rachel True

  Editing, Able, Natural

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• I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

  Maya Deren

  Rare Occasion, Auras, Greedy

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• I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Lucky, Slacker

  "March 27, 1998". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

  Vir Das

  Thinking, Giving, Fans

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