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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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....

we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

14 years ago I was born in the shadow of this mountain, given the name Mary Call. – Mary Call in Where the Lilies Bloom.

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.

You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.

It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems...

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

I’ve never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

Jaws 4 is so bad it makes Jaws 3 look like Jaws 2.