“It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.” WayFeelsMadeWantedFilmPiecesCriticismAbsolutesHatedOver ItCrapDisingenuousGetting Over It Author:Stephen Daldry
“I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.” FilmEnjoyPleasureAbsolutesGreat Experiences Author:Ray Winstone
“There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.” IfsWellsFilmBeliefTermRiskMountainCommitmentAbsolutesDevotionClimbsClimbingFilmmakingParallelsClimbing Mountain Author:Jimmy Chin
“Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare!” FilmSingingAbsolutesNakedPhoto Shoots Author:Lou Doillon
“Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.” TogetherFilmCertainAudiencePiecesBeatsAbsolutesMusicalStuckRhythmCompositionMusical Composition Author:John Carpenter
“A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.” PeopleRealFilmWonderfulAbsolutesVersionsDocumentariesProvocation Author:Cate Blanchett
“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.” WayFilmSimpleFourSkyColorPhotographyRedAbsolutesBlueGreenVulgarLipstickBlue SkySimple WordsFoliageColor Photography Author:Walker Evans
“My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.” FilmSongLeftCausesWrittenPicksAbsolutesCinemaOne TimeListenersHalfwayNudgeFavorite SongWhere We Came Author:James Hunter
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.” CharacterFilmWonderfulExampleAbsolutesIntroducingIngeniousBrandoViva Author:Werner Herzog
“Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he was fresh off of Apocalypse [Now] and The Godfather films, so he was at the absolute top of his game and legend [in The Outsiders ].” HeartFilmGamesAbsolutesStudiosMagazinesLegendsOutsidersApocalypseTime Magazine Author:Rob Lowe
“As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.” WayStillsStoriesFilmYoungDiesFansLoversHorrorAbsolutesMirrorsKillingGenreObsessedStakesOperaConsumptionYoung LoveJasonHorror FilmMichael Myers Author:Bryan Fuller
“Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.” HeartFilmChallengesPoetSkinsAbsolutesFoolishElephants Author:Mira Nair
“But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.” WayWantFeelsI CanFilmGivenQualityResponsibilityCasesTechnologyAudienceHighestAbsolutesShootingBudgetsFilmmaker Author:Christopher Nolan
“Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory.” WorldMindStillsMomentsLightFilmFallHurtMemoriesColorAbsolutesCloudsDetailsClarityObservationPerceiveReliefPresent MomentBlankImpressedShockedStanding OutStarksSlate Book:Man Walks Into a Room Source: Man Walks Into a Room
“When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.” MindKindStatesFeelingsFilmMovingSilenceMeditationFlowerTenPercentHundredEmptyAbsolutesScreensAriseSerenityNinetyFlower Blossom Author:Rajneesh
“If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.” IfsTwoDifferentMightFilmHoursPayVisionMinutesGeniusAbsolutesSticksMediocrity Author:Kim Cattrall