Cinema Quote by Jonas Mekas Download Open image “We need less perfect but more free films.” — Jonas Mekas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Film Needs Perfect
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free. — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies. — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians. — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Just because good films don't work does not mean we should stop making them. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
We have a problem in the industry, I believe. This whole 'free' issue. The television industry doesn't have it, the movie industry doesn't have… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I want to encourage the non-star, low-profile film, and maybe we've got a chance. — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
The thing I love the most about low budget films is the creative freedom. — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep… — Jonas Mekas 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
