“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksArtFilmProcessWatchesElementsShotsMusicalRhythmGreat FilmEdited Author:Frank Ocean
“If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterFilmValuesPlansYeahFactorsRecognitionOrganizedThey SaidYogiGreat FilmScooby DooFlintstones Author:Fred Seibert
“I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.” PeopleBigsPastFilmFansTelevisionTvsLuckyDirectorsSchedulesReally GreatGreat FilmPeople From The Past Author:Michael Weatherly
“For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.” IfsImportantCharacterStoriesFilmLuckyFilmmakerGreat Film Author:Channing Tatum
“[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.” IfsThinkingGivingLittlesFactsHomeFilmAnswersNiceStupidHollywoodCleverThese DaysTiesFilmmakerBowsComfortingGreat FilmVery CleverHollywood Films Author:Terry Gilliam
“Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.” FilmAsksStarsMoonAll TimeCinemaMovieHelloMovie StarInstituteGreat AmericanMovie LoveGreat FilmMovie BusinessAmerican MovieAmerican FilmGreat YearFilm StarsInstitutesMoon And StarsGreatest MovieAll Time Best MovieFilms And MoviesClassic MovieAll Time GreatestQuoting MoviesIconic MovieMovie Lines Author:Casey Robinson
“The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.” WritingYearsBookFilmMarvelousGreat Film Author:J. P. Donleavy
“Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.” PeopleFilmGreat FilmFollow Up Author:Woody Harrelson
“One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.” FilmActorsSecretModelsCamerasIntimacyViewersLensesTransmitGreat FilmFilm Actors Author:Mary Harron
“I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.” ThinkingFilmRolesGreat Film Author:Charlie Hunnam
“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsEndsWould BeFilmTurnsActorsKnowingWonderfulParticularSkillsProjectsScriptsLuxuryTomsCruiseGreat Film Author:Jonny Lee Miller
“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.” YearsRememberFilmFacesActorsGivenStarsKnownDestinySawsEuropeWindowPerformancesSouthHumanitarianPassingPassingsDestroyedShirtsConfusedRestaurantsSpainT ShirtDeanSwedenMoscowDiscoGreat FilmGreat PerformanceBogartGreat Humanitarian Author:Dennis Hopper
“I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.” KnowsYearsPlayFilmNextSawsGenerationsYears AgoTablesVersionsOddAlsGeeseOur GenerationGreat Film Author:Richard Schiff
“I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.” FilmDirectorsMy FavoriteGreat Film Author:John Waters
“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.” PeopleIfsFilmEmotionalPerfectionMiracleTechniqueAweAgain And AgainGreat FilmEmotional Life Author:Ali MacGraw
“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.” ThinkingShowsAmericaFilmInterestingFictionEuropeMakersFarewellMost InterestingGreat FilmEurope And America Author:David Hare