#film

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#attempt #express #film #polar

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#disney #film #himself #kind #last

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#clause #delightful #film #i #kind

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#films #genre #hire #i #know

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#couple #did #entire #everyone #film

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#faith #films #find #good #good films

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#certain #computer #film #knows #more

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#blair #cultural #far #film #i