Films Quotes (page 4)

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• film
• cut
• story lines

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. Neil Jordan

• moments
• film
• satisfying

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. Bruce Beresford

• film
• office
• discussion

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely. Dirk Benedict

• film
• forever
• filming

Film is forever. Angela Bassett

• life
• film
• play

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States. Famke Janssen

• relationship
• women
• kindness

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women. Brigitte Bardot

• film
• powerful
• thinking

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. Peter Jackson

• fear
• look
• film

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary. Ann Bancroft

• film
• showing
• filming

Film has to describe and show. Ralph Bakshi

• love
• decision
• film

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love. Andrea Arnold

• school
• film
• informed

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it. Paul Thomas Anderson

• life
• difficult life
• thinking

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. David Cronenberg

• time
• thinking
• independent

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make. Patrick Marber

• black white
• watch
• white

The Joke... Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras; variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami EC-35 video cameras in theater record the film’s audience and project the resultant raster onto screen - the theater audience watching itself watch itself get the obvious ‘joke’ and become increasingly self-conscious and uncomfortable and hostile supposedly comprises the film’s involuted ‘antinarrative’ flow. Incandenza’s... David Foster Wallace

• book
• saying
• character

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film. Paulo Coelho