“For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.” KindStoriesFilmCertainExamplePhotographyDigitalCollateralDigital Photography Author:Matthew Modine
“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.” IfsArtStillsAbleFilmLanguageSpaceFictionExamplePhotographyStandardsGoldScience FictionAccomplishEtcLightingOdysseyGold StandardSpace Odyssey2001 A Space OdysseyArt Direction Author:Matthew Modine
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“I never uttered a word about things, but with my age now, I've completely lost all reservations. In more ways than one. I was never in front of the camera, for example, but now I've been in films and documentaries.” WayAgeFilmLostFrontsExampleCamerasDocumentariesReservations Author:Giovanna Cau
“I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge. Now, in the landscapes of the surrealist painters, for example, one sees the regions of Inner Space; and increasingly I believe that we will encounter in film and literature scenes which are neither solely realistic nor fantastic. In a sense, it will be a movement in the interzone between both spheres.” WorldMindBelieveHandsRealityFilmLiteratureI BelieveSpaceExampleMovementScenePainterFantasticLandscapeRealmsEncountersRegionsRealisticSpheresImaginaryInner WorldOuter WorldsSurrealist Author:J. G. Ballard
“Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.” PeopleIfsShouldWholeTodayFilmCultureReadingIndividualMillionsToo MuchExampleInvolvedHollywoodCriticsPopulationLikesCentsCompetingGrossCautionPopular CultureStanleyFragmented Author:Mark Steyn
“Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.” ArtMadeSometimesFilmFormExampleDiminishTrash Author:Charlton Heston
“I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of Thrones' is a perfect example of that, or even a show like 'The Wire,' which isn't all about instant gratification it's about inviting someone into the long experience of television the way you'd be invited into a theater for two hours. So I think in that way, and the quality of writing in television is probably much better than most film writing.” ThinkingWayWritingLongTwoShowsFilmMovingGamesHoursPerfectQualityExampleTelevisionExpectationsTheaterInstantProportionThronesInvitedGratificationInvitingCinematicInstant GratificationFilm Writing Author:Bryan Singer
“I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.” MadeMomentsFilmDecisionHalfHavensExampleProjectsShotsTrainDefeatStuckOccasionsGoing To WorkRunaway Author:Steven Spielberg
“A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.” WayBodyFilmCertainModernExamplePeriodsBoundsTraditionalGesturesWardrobe Author:Donnie Yen
“The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela Bassett, 'Mr. 3000' for Disney. Bernie taught me by example what creates success is humility and hard work.” FirstsHardBigsFilmActorsExampleHumilityTaughtHard WorkStudiosBudgetsMacsAngela Author:Brian J. White
“Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.” FilmLiteratureInterestingCenturyExampleReaderTruth IsEvolveGenreAccomplished20th CenturyCastlesGothicMost InterestingGloomySinisterStoker Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.” MadeInspirationFilmExampleSourceDirectorsProfoundEndlessImpressionTeamworkFascinatedSublimeSource Of Inspiration Author:Giorgio Armani
“TV show's really quick. You're in, you're out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it's really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.” ShowsFilmExampleTvsOne DayPlanesTv Shows Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.” PeopleFilmExampleShotsMarkKillingGreat ThingsMakersScorsese Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!” FilmExampleInspireMinesHumourFilmmakerWickedQuentinTarantino Author:Chika Anadu
“The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.” PeopleTryingDoeHas BeensStatesUseShowsFilmFormWhiteResultsExamplePreparedIdeologyFascismRepressionStrawsIndoctrinationHumiliatedRibbons Author:Michael Haneke
“The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're given by having a child like that in your film... more so than in the case of actors because, for example, if you ask them to play a lion, they don't then play a lion, they actually are a lion. So, a gifted child is something very special. On the other hand, if a child has no gifts in that way it's absolutely hopeless and there's nothing you can do!” IfsWayChildrenPlayHandsKidsFilmActorsAsksGivenCan DoCasesWonderfulSpecialExamplePatientHopelessLionsGiftedGifted Children Author:Michael Haneke
“I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.” IdeasFilmCan DoExampleCollegeAccidentsBest ThingsBackwardsExposure Author:Frank Capra
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.” PeopleWayFeelsSaidFactsFilmDecisionViewsExampleDirectorsTreatsFilmmakerEtcFascinatedDeliberate Author:Chika Anadu
“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFilmRoomsAliveStageExampleMastersLike YouRealmsJust BeingTemperatureHitchcockSensational Author:Tilda Swinton
“You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.” PlayCharacterStoriesFilmExistenceExampleSceneProductionsDialogueGood StoryDistinctiveHilarity Author:John Leguizamo
“Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage.” PeopleWayWantWarLastsFilmToo MuchExampleIntimateGood ExamplesIntimate RelationshipsCarnage Author:Cate Shortland
“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.” WayGivingReasonPlayFilmFallLiteratureSpeakPowerfulLonelinessExampleRepresentationFalling ApartRepresenting Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.” PeopleFilmSexClassExampleCommodityWorking ClassWorkplaceEroticBrothels Author:Taylor Hackford
“If you think about portraying Americans, for example, in a Russian film, it all depends on where the American is from, if they went to school or not, and if they're well-educated or not. Is it an American from Texas, or an American from Brooklyn? Things would change with the vocabulary and the accent.” IfsThinkingWellsSchoolFilmExampleDependsEducatedTexasAccentsVocabularyBrooklynPortrayingWell Educated Author:Demian Bichir
“The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.” KnowsDoneFilmExampleConversation Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.” IfsSeemsTodayFilmCoursesProcessAttitudeExampleCoupleDirectorsPassionateCinemaFilmmakingImpressedTrafficIdealisticScorseseMagnolias Author:Ingmar Bergman
“A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main reason he got into it is to do what he is doing now: film and television work.” ReasonFilmGuyComedyExampleTelevisionHugeStonesCooksComedianStepping StonesFilm And Television Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process.” KnowsWayStoriesUseHomeFilmArtistValuesFoundBitsProcessInterestingStyleExampleIntellectualTheaterStudiosScreensBackgroundsDefinedJournalBiographiesArtistryAmerican Values Author:Todd Haynes
“Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.” FilmChoicesActorsCareersFeetHonestExampleTaughtCleverFantasticBeing HonestBehaveYou ChooseMikeMaking ChoicesFilm SetFeet On The Ground Author:Eddie Marsan
“I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.” PeopleKnowsFilmWeekExampleSilentFamiliarSilent Films Author:Laura Moriarty
“If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.” IfsFeelsPersonsEnoughMomentsFilmPoliticalNiceExampleEatingDinnerTheatreExtrasThemeUrges Author:Elia Suleiman