128 quotes found
“If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.”
“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.”
“No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.”
“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminate...”
“Cinema is a mixed form. L'Avventura has characters, it has social context, and these things are not trivial. Its plot is the disappearance of a disappearance. Possibly the most frightening plot ima...”
“I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding”
“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable w...”
“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”
“I wish Id done everything on Earth with you.”
“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
“iek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconsciousone never does that.”
“...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everythingeven the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.”
“It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. ...”
“To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender.”
“Down the steps,...over the corpses,...careers the pram with the child.”
“We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
“Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what ...”
“Film lovers are sick people.”
“If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.”
