#film

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#culture #film #music #writing #art

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. ↗

— Harmony Korine

#film #wagner #art

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race. ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#film-industry #hollywood #los-angeles #movie-business #southern-california

It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#business

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#agree #away #back #because #been

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#movies #nightmare #pleasure #movies

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#film #humour #sequels #twitter #movies

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#filmmaking #inspirational #life #passion #responsibility

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point. ↗

— Gena Rowlands

#filmmaking #i #i love #independent #lot

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#basically #duck #early #film #go