Artist Quote by John Cassavetes

Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

— Harmony Korine

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

— Samuel Butler

Television and film seem to love those individuals who want to die. They're less keen to cover the rest of us who might want…

— Liz Carr

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

— Dalai Lama

When you do films after films, you don't let life happen. At least, in my case, I end up relying too much on emotions,…

— Abhay Deol

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate…

— John Darnielle

Cinema can transform pain and trauma into something beautiful.

— Anna Biller

I don't think the purpose of movies is to tell people how to live their lives.

— Marielle Heller

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

— David Steindl-Rast

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Sometimes, the fate of a film is not in your hands, and you can only take home some experiences and what you got to…

— Kiara Advani

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

— Claire Danes