Cinema Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Film Funny Good films Inspirational Love
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films,… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
In most films, when we act, we don't see such meanings in what we do. Rather, we don't realise it. Only when we see… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene. — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all the time. During these years, kids would live communally – doing some work, anyway being physically active, in the countryside(...) This simple change in the age specificity of schooling would a) reduce adolescent discontent, anomie, boredom,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag 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 these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share
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