#cinema

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#armageddon #cinema #death #end-of-the-world #life

In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem. ↗

— Rutger Hauer

#film #experience

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#imagination

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cinema #color #films #prayer #love

I kind of love Colin Farrell again. I think it started with In Bruges. No, I’m lying. It started when I saw a clip of his sex tape where he’s manning the camera and instead of getting all Sex Tape-y, he goes, quite genuinely, “GOD, I’m a TERRIBLE cinematographer. ↗

— Jessica Morgan

#cinematography #colin-farrell #love

I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject,—a discovery of the “Other,” an exploration of difference. ↗

— Jean Rouch

#art

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. ↗

— Björk

#females #feminism #film #gender #men

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

— Martin Scorsese

#film #filmmaking #movies #movies

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#hollywood #movies #tyrone-power #movies

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#french-cinema #french-film #french-new-wave #movie-quote #movies