Favorites Quotes ABOUT Film

[QUENTIN]

"I am interested only in the joy if filmmaking or the pain of filmmaking, everything else bores me" -Francois Truffaut

"Cinema is the history of boys photographing girls" -Jean-Luc Godard

"Truth is 24 frames-per-second" -Jean-Luc Godard

"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art." -James Dean

"Writing movies is like my dick, it's sometimes hard, it's sometimes long, and it never gets enough respect...and in the end, it's rarely satisfactory" -Kevin Smith

"Movie directing is the perfect refuge for the mediocre." -Orson Welles


What are some of yours?

[rupert pupkin]

"all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun"

Jean Luc Godard

[Annie Hall]

"If I weren't allowed this outlet, there wouldn't be a place for me in society."-Daniel Day Lewis

"If my film makes one more person miserable, I'll feel I've done my job."-Woody Allen

More later.

[Buck Turgidson]

"Drama is just life, with all the boring parts taken out." - Alfred Hitchcock

[edonline]

"Film will only become art when its materials are as inexpensive as pen and paper." -- Jean Cocteau

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought." -- Jean Cocteau

"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film." -- Frank Capra

[A.J. Hakari]

I believe it was Hitchcock (most likely him, but damned if I can't think of anyone else) who said, "In fiction, the director is god. In documentaries, God is the director."

Damn, who said this great line?

[edonline]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
I believe it was Hitchcock (most likely him, but damned if I can't think of anyone else) who said, "In fiction, the director is god. In documentaries, God is the director."

Damn, who said this great line?

It was said by the great Alfred Hitchcock

"You have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.) Our emotions rise to meet the force coming from the screen, and they go on rising throughout our movie-going lives. When this happens in a popular art form -- when it's an art experience that we discover for ourselves -- it is sometimes disparaged as fannishness. But there's something there that goes deeper than connoisseurship or taste. It's a fusion of art and love." -- Pauline Kael in Movie Love, quoted in the September 17, 2001 New Yorker article by David Denby.

[Grebdron]

Here's my new favorite.

"You have to constantly be willing to live in a scary, emotional place, which is why actors are in therapy all the time."

Uttered by everybody's consensus vote for Best Actor of our Generation... Freddie Prinze, Jr.