#film

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#because #difficult #easier #film #got

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#did #film #like #media #now

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there. ↗

— Richard Gere

#even #exist #film #light #nothing

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. ↗

— Richard Donner

#beginning #film #film school #graduating #great

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#brothers #characters #coen #detail #enriched

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#actually #always #andy #andy warhol #angle

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#advertise #advertises #cannes #come #coverage

Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#experience #film #going #government #government officials

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#am #black #fellow #filmmakers #i

I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#anybody #celebrity #deal #dealt #fame