Cinema Quote by Cary Elwes

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

— Alexis Bledel

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from…

— Christopher Nolan

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

— Martin Scorsese

There were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those,…

— Neil LaBute

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say,…

— Ted Demme

It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.

— Kate Winslet

Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that…

— Nikolaj Arcel

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they…

— Florence Pugh

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

— Howard Berger

Every period piece is made in the context of the moment, always equally trying to capture something about now through then. But as an…

— Fred Hechinger