“One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.” WorldYearsLooksAgeFilmClearMy FavoriteRemarkableFrankEnchantmentScorsese Author:David O. Russell
“I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.” PeopleIfsShowsFilmClearStageEmptyEditorsStinkManipulative Author:D. B. Sweeney
“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.” IfsThinkingI CanHappensFilmChoicesDealsCareersClearBalance Author:Lukas Haas
“The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis'], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.” WorldMadeFeelingsTodayFilmClearI RealizedJapanVagueAmbiguityAmbiguous Author:Takeshi Kitano
“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.” HardWantedFilmYoungPurposeWalksClearWalkingDirectorsSkillsTheaterVictimSticksTortureHard TimesKillersBrutalYoung WomenSpineCreeksCredentialsTrackingMutilation Author:Roger Ebert
“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'” ThinkingWorldMadeWarReasonTodayAmericaFilmFightingAsksClearSeriesIraqWar Of The WorldsEngagedCrucialWorld War IiElsewhereFrankWorld War ITroopsEnteringOur Troops Author:Eugene Jarecki
“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.” PersonsSoulFilmPoorClearDoorsHabitHorrorHollywoodAskingSaneNastyObserversOccasionalMisguidedCellarsAtticsAsking Why Author:Andrew Tudor
“It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.” FilmClearDirectorsAgree Author:Steven Soderbergh
“AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.” FilmLevelsClearAccountsArroganceIncompetenceHigh Level Author:A. O. Scott
“For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.” FilmFantasyClearFeaturesDistinctionDocumentaries Author:Werner Herzog