Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

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...

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie,” says Scorsese. “I didn’t learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school...

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint....

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models — that we might not need animals in the flesh.

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...

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly...

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him.

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

Observation is a dying art.

It’s me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve...

That’s the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor”.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

We all steal, but if we’re smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

When everything gets answered, it’s fake.

Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and...

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director – he is the movie.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it’s inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Film lovers are sick people.

Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out

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,...

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception… as film is able to do today… And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons,...

Filmmaking is akin to writing on water.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all...

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and...

Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like a dream, extraordinarily farsighted in calling up from the unconscious complete...

Well anything thats interesting in a film, or in a character (all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that) comes from that part of you that you want to hide and push...

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Gökyüzüne bakar SinemacıÇocuklar! Hayaller geçiyor mu? Bütün yazılanlar, çekilecekler filmlere fragman…

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they...

Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you

Didn’t open the box? What was it last time? Didn’t know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don’t we? – Cenobite

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

En ausencia de la luz prevalece la oscuridad

You have to want to make a film for other reasons – to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody’s fate – but you can’t want to make a film simply for the...

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not...

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...

Meanwhile it’s got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don’t...

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

I don’t think there’s anything man wasn’t meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn’t do.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical,...

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Hidup Kita adalah Film Terbaik

What is this film (Mirror) about?It is about a Man. No, not the particular man whose voice we hear from behind the screen, played by Innokentiy Smoktunovsky. It’s a film about you, your father, your...

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...

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That’s the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that...