Alive Quote by Panos Cosmatos

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

— Viggo Mortensen

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

— Ajay Naidu

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

— Roman Coppola

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a…

— Barbara Steele

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

— Ti West

I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a…

— Anton Yelchin

I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back…

— Glenn Close

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's…

— Channing Tatum

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a…

— Minor White

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the…

— Gary Oldman

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

— Mia Kirshner

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

— David Slade