Film Quotes - page 14

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. (Darren Aronofsky)
I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living. View quote
Park Chan-wook
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of. View quote
Rod Steiger
If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life? View quote
Rod Steiger
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. View quote
Frank Capra
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope. View quote
Atom Egoyan
The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement. View quote
Atom Egoyan
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. (Atom Egoyan)
The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. View quote
Atom Egoyan
Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you. View quote
Atom Egoyan
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. View quote
Victoria Abril
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. View quote
Victoria Abril
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph. View quote
Robert Bringhurst
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it. View quote
Saul Bass
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call. (Rose Byrne)
An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring. View quote
Shane Black
Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content. View quote
Vint Cerf
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. View quote
Natalie Wood
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. View quote
Brad Dourif