#film

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life. ↗

— Albert Finney

#film #given #group #life #make

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both. ↗

— V. Alexander

#mystery #suspense #trouble-is-her-business #business

There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#go #intend #just #making #no point

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#action film #bad #basically #buys #copied

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college. ↗

— John Sexton

#back #class #college #develop #dismay

Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that. ↗

— Robert Altman

#robert-altman #beauty

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it. ↗

— Frank Lentricchia

#film #frank-lentricchia #past #the-sadness-of-antonioni #communication

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different. ↗

— Peter Biskind

#filmmaking #movies

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#difficult #difficult time #face #film #i

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films. ↗

— Ian Hart

#american films #attracted #films #i #usually