“I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.” DifferentKidsSchoolFilmFiveTownsVideoLife ExperienceFilm SchoolAvid Author:Jodie Foster
“The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.” KnowsWantBookSometimesPhilosophyFilmFunAttentionStoresVideoShirtsShopsSectionsDenseWomen Want Author:Tobey Maguire
“I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.” KindFilmFeltNaturalTheaterStoresVideo Author:Timothy Simons
“Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.” IfsGivingMadeFilmTechnologyFourTreeCamerasVideoGrainLeafsVideo Cameras Author:Jonas Mekas
“First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.” FirstsReasonFilmYoungStepsVideo80sAnimationLapsesTime Lapse Author:Pipilotti Rist
“For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.” GivingTogetherFilmGiving UpVideoPensNot Giving Up Author:Naomi Wolf
“All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.” PeopleKnowsMindMayStillsWholeRunningFilmGrowsGrowing UpGenerationsAll ThingsStoresWho I AmVideoTake TimeCablesDichotomy Author:Robby Benson
“Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store.” ThinkingWayHas BeensFilmWrittenGenerationsHeardHeroStoresVideoClerksGeneration X Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1997 Edition
“Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingBookRealReasonProblemFilmGamesCausesDifferencesNovelIssuesScaredTheatreVideoComicObsessedCaptureComic BookAdaptationAdaptingMovie Theatre Author:Alex Garland
“Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.” WorldFirstsI CanLightWantedFilmGuyFoundFeltMy OwnStudyCamerasI RealizedVideoSupposed To BeBuyingLooking BackNicheSubmergedMovie MakingGreat GuyVideo Cameras Author:Mark Wahlberg
“It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtTwoMatterHomeBigsFilmKnow HowWeekTelevisionTvsLateInspiredCancerExcitedExpectedScreensListsEndlessVideoEducatedVersusBig ScreenMovie MakingHome Videos Author:Jack Nicholson
“I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.” YearsFirstsWantedRememberFilmSawsDogMy FriendsStoresVideoReservoirsReservoir Dogs Author:Samm Levine
“We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.” YearsShowsFilmGamesSoundMissingTelevisionProjectsCreatingTwentiesVideoPassingPassingsBobSixtyShockedSeventiesTelevision ShowsGreat FriendSaddenedCollaboratingFilm And Television Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.” IfsMenFirstsEndsHumorFunnyFilmDoorsWeekHusbandCamerasVideoMy HusbandScreamLocksBathroomYour HusbandVideo Cameras Author:Rita Rudner
“No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.” PeopleReasonRealityFilmGamesSituationNovelTvsVideoImprovingReality Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.” WritingLongFilmFallThreeActorsStuffViewsMillionsVideoSecondsBowlsToiletsKittenGood ActorsShort Films Author:Ben Schwartz
“Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.” HumansFilmGamesBreakIndustryNewsSorryVideoFantasticNarrativeI'm SorryMovie Industry Author:Guillermo del Toro
“My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.” WellsFilmResponsibilityShareNew YorkStudentsPhotographyCommittedVideoMediumsEnthusiasmExplorationAcademyJoiningSense Of Responsibility Author:Ralph Gibson