107 quotes found
“Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”
“You float like a feather," sings Radiohead, "In a beautiful world." I've listened several times to the Radiohead songs, because it was nice of Raymond to say he heard a bit of them in what I sang. ...”
“I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.”
“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.”
“Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.”
“With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.”
“I'm a sucker for sports movies.”
“I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.”
“Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.”
“Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-ge...”
“I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.”
“I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.”
“Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.”
“I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. The...”
“I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.”
“I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.”
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
“When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.”
“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”
“Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.”
