128 quotes found
“But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.”
“Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.”
“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedic...”
“The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certa...”
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”
“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”
“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.”
“Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you. Attacking teen girls on the internet is the saddest fo...”
“I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.”
“If you want the ultimate, youve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. Its not tragic to die doing what you want.”
“In America, they have this thing called a story cycle. When they're at war, they start doing fantasy and war-style entertainment. When fantasy gets big, they go through a recession, and horror star...”
“Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.”
“... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth a...”
“Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit wit...”
“I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.”
“The camera's greedy lens sucks my image through it and splashes my pixilated ghost across his face in pale blue light.”
“Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite”
“Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people.”
“The plane touches down on very rough ground: its wheelbarrow wheels bounce and one set of wings rises alarmingly while the other dips. Now the Masai and the plane are converging. It's a magnificent...”
“14 years ago I was born in the shadow of this mountain, given the name Mary Call. - Mary Call in Where the Lilies Bloom.”
