All Quotes

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.
‐‐ John Hurt

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
‐‐ Frank Capra

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
‐‐ David Strathairn

Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

Film is so immersive.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.
‐‐ Gustavo Santaolalla

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty

Film is something that reaches so many people. How many people are going to go into a gallery? And understand what they're seeing? I think about the guy walking down the street, the guy who drove me here - this guy has the opportunity to go the cinema.
‐‐ Henry Hopper

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
‐‐ Ozwald Boateng

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
‐‐ Abigail Disney

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
‐‐ Ann Macbeth

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.
‐‐ Clark Johnson

Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. However, to have your work seen on such a large scale, that's a very exciting prospect.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
‐‐ Chris Milk

Film is very condensed.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.
‐‐ Viva Bianca

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.
‐‐ Mithun Chakraborty

Film lovers are sick people.
‐‐ Francois Truffaut

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
‐‐ Mark Boal

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.
‐‐ Luc Dardenne

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
‐‐ Jack Valenti

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
‐‐ Mike Leigh

Film-making is a physically hard job.
‐‐ Alan Parker

Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.
‐‐ Rohit Shetty

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.
‐‐ Delta Burke

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
‐‐ Steven Bochco

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Film school didn't prepare me for the fact that you have to manage so many different personalities at every stage, and I learned nothing about what to do when a movie was finished.
‐‐ Greg Mottola

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
‐‐ Anne Dudley

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
‐‐ Nick Cave

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
‐‐ James McAvoy

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
‐‐ Jim Morrison

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
‐‐ Ang Lee

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
‐‐ Mark Poster