#film

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now? ↗

— David Mamet

#film #writing #business

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

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary? ↗

— Brigid Pasulka

#history #life #life

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#dancing #engaged #fed #fed up #film

...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled... ↗

— John Geddes

#fulfilment #love #worship #love

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? ↗

— Yasmin Ahmad

#change #film #film-director #love #malay