Film Quotes
Most popular film quotes
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.
There are no rules in filmmaking, only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
The film is a machine for seeing more than meets the eye.
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure, the costly, exacting mistress. One adores them both, but in different ways.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Film is a collaborative art.
Film is a religious experience.... You commune in a darkened open room with mythological huge symbolic figures. There is—on an unconscious level—a religious experience going on.
The film is a battleground . . . love, hate, violence, action, death—in a word, emotion.
A film is the world in an hour and a half.
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission, and the babysitter were worth it.
Making a film is like going down a mine. Once you've started you bid a metaphorical goodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking—it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless—and absolutely essential.
