Cinema Quote by Christian Metz Download Open image “Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.” — Christian Metz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Difficult Easy Film
Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple. — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks. — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges. — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen. — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
