Film Quotes

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

~ Jim Morrison

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

~ Alain De Botton

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

~ Sean Penn

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

~ Orson Welles

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

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

~ 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

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

~ 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

Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It’s something that has to be seen. It’s great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.

~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

~ David Mamet

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

~ Iain Banks

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

~ Christopher Nolan

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

~ Adrián Lamo

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

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

Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.

~ A.d. Posey

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

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

~ Ingmar Bergman

What's the differences fantasies, reality, dreams and memories. It's all the same, just noises.- Ghost in The Shell

~ Deyth Banger

It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head

~ Neil Gaiman

They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?

~ Richard Linklater

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

~ A.d. Posey

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.

~ Bob Hope

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Björk

I hear you in the morning sun.

~ A.d. Posey

Be the energy you want others to absorb.

~ A.d. Posey

Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love.

~ A.d. Posey

A good friend is a healing friend.

~ A.d. Posey

Life is beauty simply breathing.

~ A.d. Posey