Accepted Quote by Henri Langlois

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

— Henri Langlois

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make…

— Deb Margolis

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic people who…

— Christopher Guest

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different…

— David Mamet

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake…

— Halle Berry

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cinema is an art form.

— Anurag Kashyap

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

— Max Tundra