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Film Quotes by Ingmar Bergman
- Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into…
- No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
- I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
- No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in…
- When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in…
- To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.
- When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The…
- Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight…
- A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it…
- Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as…
- There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on…
- There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
- People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive…
- When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The…
- The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of…
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- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different… — Amy Adams
- I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which… — Amy Adams
- I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or… — Amy Adams