#films

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and doing independent movies and off-Broadway theater. I loved it, I had a really good time doing that, and I worked on a lot of projects that are very dear to my heart, both plays and films. ↗

— Jared Harris

#city #content #dear #doing #films

I would loathe to work on modern films. ↗

— Julie Harris

#i #loathe #modern #work #would

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone. ↗

— Julie Harris

#black and white #concerned #films #tone #white

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture. ↗

— John Hawkes

#always #any #being #best #cliched

There were so many people who wanted me for their films. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#many #me #people #their #wanted

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#age #american #american movies #class #culture

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#failure #films #men #seem #struggle

I've been number two in films for donkey's years. ↗

— Trevor Howard

#donkey #films #i #number #two