"I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting." Werner Herzog |
"Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same." Hayao Miyazaki |
"The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room." Orson Welles |
"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world." Alan Rickman |
"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work." Hayao Miyazaki |
"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing." Andy Warhol |
"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper." Stanley Kubrick |
"The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same." Jim Jarmusch |
"Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions." Hayao Miyazaki |
"Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness." Pedro Almodovar |
"Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema." David Lynch |
"Fear is the mother of foresight." Thomas Hardy |
"There are no explanations, there are no answers." Jessica Lange |
"This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." Bette Davis |
"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'" Quentin Tarantino |
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. (via Brainy Quote)" Samuel Goldwyn |
"Movie Reviewers: Don't give any movie the full five stars because that means "perfect" and only Meat Loaf is perfect. (via Twitter)" FakeAPStylebook |
"Don't judge a book by its movie. (via Twitter)" Steven Winterburn |
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Unless you look at the inside lid. Then it tells you exactly. (via Twitter)" Madam & Eve |
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert |
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." Jim Rohn |
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde |
"A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings." Stanley Kubrick |
"The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age." Carl Gustav Jung |
"Never judge a book by its movie." J.W. Eagan |
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." Alfred Hitchcock |
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." Alfred Hitchcock |
"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself." Jean Anouilh |
"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing." Ralph Richardson |
"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater." Roman Polanski |