128 quotes found
“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”
“Women think in [Douglas] Sirks films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk the...”
“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in anothe...”
“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”
“Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'youre so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real lif...”
“If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?”
“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.”
“That you rescued few peoples lifes or somebody's life. Doesn't mean that they we return this back!They could decide to kill you..., who knows? (Person Of Interest)”
“Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Sin...”
“Everyone has their truth. Mine lies in the cinema.”
“Only the past is real.”
“People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
“Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!”
“When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the ...”
“No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense.”
“Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.”
“I won't be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats ...”
“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.”
“If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.”