Film Quotes

Down the steps,...over the corpses,...careers the pram with the child.

~ Sergei Eisenstein

Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life.

~ Frank Lentricchia

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.

~ Craig Mapp

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Forget it, Jake -- it's Chinatown.

~ Robert Towne

By engaging with film illusions both actively and passively – as I attempt to do in this book – we strengthen the capacity of our minds to reason, imagine and think through ideas in a way unrestrained by some static conception of objective Truth. In so doing, the nihilistic gap existing between the real world and the whole variety of film worlds perhaps widens, but it also serves to offer a free, open space into which our interpretations may spill, mingle and propagate in uninhibited, nihilistic liberty.

~ John Marmysz

Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.

~ Glen Keane

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

Don't bitch or punish the world: just create. Create something nobody's ever seen before and there is a good chance the world will notice you. Attacking teen girls on the internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent. Because if you're not being useful in this world, you're being useless. Don't be useless: go make stuff that makes people happy.

~ Kevin Smith

In America, they have this thing called a story cycle. When they're at war, they start doing fantasy and war-style entertainment. When fantasy gets big, they go through a recession, and horror starts gaining popularity. When horror gets popular, mystery starts gaining popularity. Then when mystery reaches its peak, science fiction starts gaining popularity. Then things get rough again, and we go back to Fantasy. This quote was taken from an interview from The Myth of Cthulhu: Dark Navigation.

~ Freddy Sakazaki

... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.

~ John Yorke

I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.

~ Ben Brooks

The camera's greedy lens sucks my image through it and splashes my pixilated ghost across his face in pale blue light.

~ Tyler Knight

Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers, but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.

~ E.m. Forster

The plane touches down on very rough ground: its wheelbarrow wheels bounce and one set of wings rises alarmingly while the other dips. Now the Masai and the plane are converging. It's a magnificent shot: the Masai run, run, run, run; because of the optics it is dreamlike. The little plane bounces, shudders, slews and finally makes lasting contact with the ground. At exactly the right moment, as the plane comes to a halt, the Masai warriors, in a highly agitated state, reach the plane, and the camera closes on the pilot, whose face as he removes his leather flying helmet and goggles, appears just above the bobbing red ochre composition of plaited hair and fat-shone bodies. It is Mel Gibson, with a grave expression, which can't quite suppress his unruly Aussieness.

~ Justin Cartwright

Certain directors and actors were constantly preoccupied by one problem, and apparently, one only. This was connected with the so-called German greeting, which was the method of hailing a friend by raising the right arm straight out with the hand extended at, or slightly above, the level of the shoulder. This greeting had very definite political implications; it was employed daily by millions; and the directors and actors saw no reason why it should not be one on the films in a simple and life-like fashion. They failed. Even when shown in the rushes the effect on the select and professional audience was simply to produce uncontrollable hilarity. The cinema can do a great deal. It can entrance, t can tell fairy tales, it can be realistic or surrealistic -- but it cannot portray a gesture that is false without underlining the most brutal way its basic falseness. The German cinema could not reproduce the German greeting; it was the greeting that was to blame, not the cinema.

~ Ernst Von Salomon

I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will be confused. One: Si vis pacem, para bellum. Latin. Boot Camp Sergeant made us recite it like a prayer. Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war. Two: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. Three: in certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment.

~ Jonathan Hensleigh

On Friday evening Martin and Mona went to the United Artists Theatre to see a film already being mentioned for the Academy award. It had three stars, ran a hundred and ten minutes, and bored them both to petrifaction. (In brief, the award was in the bag.)The Case of the Seven of Calvary

~ Anthony Boucher

For the first time in years Ashley found herself feeling truly alone. Despite being surrounded by people most of every day, she was unable to connect to them in a way she considered meaningful, and found herself passing through their lives - and her own - in a state of total isolation.

~ Alex Ross Perry

After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015)

~ Deyth Banger

After all there isn't way out, there isn't security.(Film Hidden)

~ Deyth Banger

It seemed so much safer and more comfortable to live in the lives of other people - to observe their joys and sorrows with detachment as if one were watching a film or a play.

~ Barbara Pym

(The Purge)... We are not stupid...

~ Deyth Banger

[Luchino] Visconti came from the Milanese branch of one of Europe’s oldest families, whose roots can be traced back to the early 13th century. He might have appeared as a character in one of his own films about the aristocracy, such as Senso or The Leopard – that’s the life he was born into. But at a certain point in the 1930s, his passion for theatre, opera and the cinema set him on a radically different path.(...)He has often been referred to as a great political artist, but that’s too limiting and frozen a description. His sense of European history was vast and he knew the lives of the rich and powerful first hand – but at a certain point he became drawn to understand the other side of life, that of the poor and powerless. He had a strong sense of the particular manner in which absolutely everyone, from the Sicilian fishermen in his neorealist classic La Terra Trema to the Venetian aristocrats in Senso, was affected by the grand movements of history.

~ Martin Scorsese

Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.So do you have the guts?

~ Deyth Banger

The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But...

~ Deyth Banger

Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film.

~ Deyth Banger

It's so sad that everything is put here in this film Bound to Vengeance.

~ Deyth Banger

Somebody hearing me saying the film is stupid??Talking about The Hospital 2?... THey just said it, in the film! (In other words in the film there was scene saying STUPIDDDDDDDDD

~ Deyth Banger

During the early days of Franco's tenure with Harry Alan Towers (1967-1969) there was an occasion, oft remarked upon, when one film (The Girl From Rio) finished shooting a week early, and rather than send the crew home Towers and Franco hastily wrote a new script over the weekend (99 Women), and began shooting it on the Monday. In this case the arrangement was made with the full cooperation of the producer. But did the experience suggest to Franco a possible way of working in the future? After all, 99 Women, conceived in a rush and made without deliberation, went on to become one of Franco's biggest grossing films of all time, spending weeks in the upper reaches of the Variety chart.

~ Stephen Throwers

Time never waits for your answers like do you want to continue or not. It continues so be clever, one moment you will wake up in 16, then 26, then 45, then 67 and your whole life it will went like two hours film!

~ Deyth Banger

Mad Max the crazies ever made film. Such unique, incrediable, awesome and phenomenal film. You can't believe how is made!

~ Deyth Banger

You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world — them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you need to know about the enemy.

~ - Joe Kenehan

Nobody dies in Vain (1408 - Film).

~ Deyth Banger

How much you are close you see less!

~ Deyth Banger

We are on location, this is not a vacation.

~ Deyth Banger

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?

~ Tony Garnett

Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you’ve got time and sequences. You’ve got dialogue. You’ve got music. You’ve got sound effects. You have so many tools. And you can express a feeling and a thought that can’t be conveyed any other way. Its a magical medium. For me, it’s so beautiful to think about these pictures and sounds flowing together in time and in sequence, making something that can be done only through cinema. Its not just words or music-it’s a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn’t exist before. It’s telling stories. It’s devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film. When I catch an idea for a film, I fall in love with the way cinema can express it. I like a story that holds abstractions, and that’s what cinema can do.

~ David Lynch

Long after people forget what you said or did, they’ll remember how you made them feel.

~ T. Rafael Cimino

Vanessa insisted that film was exactly like poetry. Nothing necessarily had to happen, you just had to feel something.

~ Cecily Von Ziegesar