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“I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.”
Jack Handy
“Scriptwriting [for film] is the toughest part of the whole racket . . . the least understood and the least noticed.”
Frank Capra
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.”
Jean Baudrillard
“Film lovers are sick people.”
Francois Truffaut
“Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories.”
Theodore Parker
“A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.”
Federico Fellini
“It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.”
Josh Hartnett
“I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.”
Johnny Depp
“The secret to film is that it's an illusion.”
George Lucas
