#film

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

#filmmaking #movies

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later?" Stanley Kubrick ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#films #music

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. ↗

— Woody Allen

#film

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. ↗

— Doug Peacock

#nature #wildlife #nature

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 My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.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

— Georges Duhamel

#film #film-criticism #literary-criticism #thoughts #literary-criticism

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#era #favorite #feel #filmmaking #great

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#being #cannes #festival #film #film festival

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #answer #direct #direction #films

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#albums #entertainer #films #i #i can

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#believe #believing #both #done #fact