(2890 quotes found)
“If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.”
Angelina Jolie
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.”
David Mamet
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading”
Igor Stravinsky
“A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it'.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.”
Denzel Washington
“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
Jean Cocteau
“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul”
Ingrid Bergman
“I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.”
“I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.”
“Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.”
Colin Wilson
“A very receptive state of mind...not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.”
Minor White
