If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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

There is a Pirate in every one of us.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

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.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept that those under the age of 18 are able to view the film....

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it’s like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn’t...

Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people...

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

…as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life...

In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He’s found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged...

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny — not to mention vulnerable...

I’m lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don’t need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That’s an enormous privilege. That’s the...

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse – it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to the medium’s essential marriage of light and dark, or as Mary...

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.

I don’t know. I don’t really like old movies. The acting is so, ‘Hey buddy, ol’ pal. Let’s go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding

you’re all a bunch of sheep!” and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen… they’re all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other...

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on...

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)

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...

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when...

Last, but not least — in fact, this is most important — you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will...

Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let’s go and experience the art of the cinema. Let’s...

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few...

I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch’s Laura’s muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that...

No one can be the total cure for another person.

To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender.

Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected...

No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out.

The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

To show you how much I love you, I’d take you to the moon and back. Or try to fake it in a film studio.