Any Quote by Christopher McQuarrie

You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is…

— Dennis Hopper

I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to…

— Oliver Stone

Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored.

— Geoffrey Ward

This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do larger movies…

— Joe Robert Cole

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

— Steven Spielberg

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while…

— David McCullough

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the…

— Jean-Luc Godard

For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is…

— Michael Haneke

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in…

— Ira Sachs

I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La…

— Agnes Varda