This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things that always become ugly with time.
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before?
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it – if my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don’t like that, then tough titty, don’t go and see it, alright? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don’t do homages.
Films are subjective-what you like, what you don’t like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it’s the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they’ve done, I want that effort there-I want that sincerity. And when you don’t feel it, that’s the only time I feel like I’m wasting my time at the movies.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.