Films Quotes

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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. — Nicolas Roeg
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with. — Richard Linklater
Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich… — Bill Foster
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a… — Michael Haneke
Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive… — Michael Haneke
I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught… — David O. Russell
There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how… — Abbas Kiarostami
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden.… — Jean Renoir
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in… — Jacques Rivette
The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that… — Alain Resnais
Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited… — Terry Gilliam
Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic… — Roger Deakins
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the… — Lisa Marie Presley
I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like… — Michel Gondry
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. — Paul Robeson
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful. — Harold Ramis
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll… — Gary Kemp
Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the… — Shirley Temple
After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I… — Earl Campbell
Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good. — Rachel Stevens
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had… — Sam Raimi
Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made,… — Sam Raimi
But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there. — Lasse Hallstrom

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