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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless -- and absolutely essential.
William Goldman
Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
Federico Fellini
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
Camille Anna Paglia
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Will Rogers
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber, The New York Time
A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
Stanley Kubrick
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.
Ingmar Bergman, Laterna Magica
In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.
Wesley Snipes
It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
John Travolta
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
David Puttnam
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
Don DeLillo
I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Frank Capra
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Derek Jarman
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
JeanLuc Godard
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- That's for you! On shooting Schindler's List
Ben Kingsley
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Kim Cattrall, In The New Vulcan
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. Explaining why the hero's woman must get shot
Steven Seagal
When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.
Tim Burton
