100 Quotes About Film

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism — use to it terminate misogyny — use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness. Abhijit Naskar

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors. Abhijit Naskar

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience. Abhijit Naskar

Make movies my friend — make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul. Abhijit Naskar

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up. Abhijit Naskar

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs. Abhijit Naskar

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste — romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness. Abhijit Naskar

Having somebody help you doesn't mean that you have failed. It just means that you're not in it alone Unknown

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5, 000 times over. Benedict Cumberbatch

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. Chuck Palahniuk

People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy. Unknown

I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depressed, and do all those things you did?' I said, 'I wanted this girl and she left me.' And he said, ' Well, we have to look into that.' And I said, 'There's nothing to look into! I wanted her and she left me.' And he said, 'Well, why are you feeling so intense?' And I said, 'Cause I want the girl! ' And he said, 'What's underneath it?' And I said, 'Nothing! 'He said, 'I'll have to give you medication.' I said, 'I don't want medication! I want the girl! ' And he said, 'We have to work this through.' So, I took a fire extinguisher from the casement and struck him across the back of his neck. And before I knew it, guys from Con Ed had jumper cables in my head and the rest was.. Woody Allen

People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not what horror is about. The horror genre teaches us that sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, but that hope always prevails in even the darkest of situations. That's a very important lesson, no matter how frightening you think the teacher is, and to be in the top of her class, all you need to do is to go in with an open mind. . Rebecca McNutt

In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully and neat in real life. Flying chunks of human flesh and screaming orphans really put that Hollywood take into perspective and there is nothing clean or sterile about any of it. When people die, it’s fucking horrible. M.B. Dallocchio

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. Unknown

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. Roger Ebert

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it. Federico Fellini

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Observation is a dying art. Stanley Kubrick

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. David Gilmour

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday. Rebecca McNutt

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. Sara Sheridan

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. Harmony Korine

For J.-L.G., color does not exist simply to show us that a girl has blue eyes or that a certain gentleman is a member of the Legion of Honor. By necessity, a film by Godard that offers the possibility of color is going to show us something that could not be shown in black and white, a kind of voice that cannot resound ehen colors are mute. Aragon

Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources. Abhijit Naskar

It was held that the six great arts — visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature — form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning. Peter Abbs

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. Tacita Dean

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts. David Brown

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life. A.D. Posey

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe. Werner Herzog

She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal! Ana Claudia Antunes

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. David Lynch

Nations need to constantly reaffirm their historical roots to maintain their political ideals. Motion pictures were one of the media used by nations to accommplish this task. The question one must ask is: Did the colonial films made faithfully represent the period in our nation's history? Unknown

The colonial films of the golden age of Hollywood were a clear proclamation of the Consensus historians' interpretation of the facts. These motion pictures encouraged audiences to believe that our nation could overcome all obstacles to its growth and defend itself against any future foreign aggression. Unknown

I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film. Deyth Banger

And the book... and the work.. and the life goes to the whole beginning... and trying to answer how in real did we met.( Mr. Nobody, No One Tell) Deyth Banger

We encounter truth within. A.D. Posey

When is now. A.D. Posey

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss. A.D. Posey

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly. A.D. Posey

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength. A.D. Posey

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart. A.D. Posey

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver. A.D. Posey

I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling. Gabby Bess

Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with stars? Did you not get drunk? Why didn’t you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a film? A book? In idyllic dusks and dawns? Did you not get high? It is good that you didn't. For all is well. I am drunk and dazed. I have already forgotten youand your bewitching ways. Kamand Kojouri

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business. Rasheed Ogunlaru

Gratefulness heightens awareness. A.D. Posey

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows. Peter Biskind

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines. Rebecca McNutt

Who can be your killer or who can kill you and how they react?? Nice question, I just look as a killer, so here is how it goes a killer can be everyone he probably can want to kill you, then somebody kill him and then this person wants to kill you.. Isn't it a reverse??? Mind Hunters is a film about reverse, if you wanna check out this film! ? The killers are silent and react fact, think double, think in such way that to be caged.. awesome isn't it?? . Deyth Banger

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want. Martha Grimes

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known. Preston Sturges

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world. A.D. Posey

Film makes me feel less alone in the world. A.D. Posey

How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or make a super 8 home movie. Traditional film takes integrity, nostalgia, effort, patience and imagination - things that the 21st century has very little of. Everything these days, even a superior medium like film photography with an extensively vivid history and an iconic meaning, is becoming disposable in this age. Rebecca McNutt

…Maybe I’ll be watching super-8 home videos, ” Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. “I love my super-8 camera, it’s an Eastman Kodak one… Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and now Kodak has stopped making Kodachrome film and all kinds of traditional film products… it’s sad.” “Well, uh… well, have fun watching your home movies then, ” Mandy finished, but she didn’t have the slightest idea what he was talking about. Rebecca McNutt