#akin

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#best #film #flight #give #him

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#also #been #made #making #miserable

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' ↗

— Tom Hardy

#around #bag #batman #black #bouncing

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#back #called #commercial #film #filmmaking

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#films #i #making #old #years

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#because #deal #dreaming #films #finance

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#divisions #entire #government #i #inhabit

Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#being #dramas #dramatic #dramatic actor #going

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie. ↗

— John Hawkes

#aware #camera #certainly #imagination #life

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that. ↗

— John Hawkes

#because #being #even #i #making