Looks Quote by Guillermo del Toro

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

— Kate Winslet

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

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

It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of…

— Cary Fukunaga

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back…

— Paul Feig

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

— Howard Berger

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

— Cary Elwes

Making a film requires an alignment of God! On top of that if you are doing a period film, it is even harder and…

— Pooja Batra

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for…

— Brian Helgeland

The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the…

— Lionel Wigram