“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksMadeTwoWholeFilmCertainWalksMinutesHavensPaintingConsumedGalleryDown Time Author:Julie Mehretu
“Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.” FilmCertainThreeTeamMinutesFitShowy Author:Dennis Muren
“I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.” LooksFilmOpportunityChallengesAudienceMinutesMaterialsEnthusiasticPottersNew Challenges Author:David Heyman
“It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.” KnowsMeanStillsHardLastsFilmFiveMinutesApproachFive Minutes Author:Alex Prager
“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” MayHas BeensTwoStoriesFilmThreeHoursLinesWalksVisionGraceMinutesSpecialEffectsSurpriseLove StoryAdmireOriginalityPearlsHarborsDecemberStunningSpecial EffectsTrianglesBanalityLove TriangleQuotingRedundantCenterpiecesSurprise AttacksDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Roger Ebert
“When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.” BookCharacterFilmHoursMinutesCompromiseAll The Best Author:Channing Tatum
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.” HardActionFilmDiesFallMemoriesClassModernMinutesHeroStandardsEntertainmentWitDialogueRelateGenreJudgedVillainThrillImpressiveMindlessBest FilmVery ImpressivePyrotechnics Author:James Berardinelli
“In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.” FilmNightSportsBlackSpaceCompanyMinutesNew YorkSpeechBlindGreenSevenAthleteTrackBostonMotorFlewMiamiBowlingBuffaloSeven DaysRochesterFord Motor Author:Jesse Owens
“from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.” PastFilmNextUnited StatesMinutesDemandNewsFilledSpeedAlcoholCurseCarrieNew ThingsThrillersOne MinuteNewnessSensationalHonorary Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.” PeopleThinkingWellsPlayCharacterFilmComedyMinutesPerformancesBackgroundsComing OutExpectingSketch Comedy Author:Thomas Lennon
“My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.” WayWellsHas BeensFilmFeltWalksSituationFiveMinutesI RealizedFive MinutesBiggest FearOverreaching Author:Anne Hathaway
“Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.” Has BeensFilmFiveMinutesSickPhrasesFive Minutes Author:Lynda Obst
“Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.” PeopleLittlesTwoSometimesBigsRememberFilmAudienceWeekMinutesMajorsForgottenBizarreTwo WeeksBlockbuster Author:Rob Zombie
“I cannot control what you bring into the theater when you see the film. I can't control what my parents bring in. I can't control what some random person on Twitter brings in to the theater. All I can control is the hour and 50 minutes that the movie lasts, and try to give it absolutely everything I can.” GivingTryingPersonsI CanLastsFilmParentHoursMinutesTheater Author:James Ponsoldt
“I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.” IfsGivingFilmImaginationForgetResultsAudienceFiveMinutesPerspectiveInstinctFlatsFive MinutesFascinationNarratorsActivate Author:Werner Herzog
“I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute?” IfsThinkingKnowsArtUseKidsSchoolFilmLiteratureKnow HowFiveMinutesHavensCamerasDo You KnowFive MinutesCurriculumMentoringMenusFilm School Author:Rob Nilsson
“Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.” PeopleLooksTwoWholeFilmNightOrderThreeBitsHoursHappenedGroupsMinutesPerformancesTheatreEvery Night Author:Kevin Spacey
“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.” PeopleIfsWantFilmStuffMinutesSingingHearingAppealsVocabularyNinetyEighty Author:Jonathan Demme
“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsArtShowsFilmFormArtistOpportunityVoiceWatchesAudienceMinutesEasierDirectorsConceptsFirst TimeDirectHopefullyFeaturesThemeVisualsLengthInvestorsFilmmakingVisual ArtCollaboratorsUnderratedShort FilmsNo Brainer Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsTryingFilmLaughingComedyMinutesTheaterThings ChangeAway From YouSlippingSlipping Away Author:Taika Waititi
“Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.” YearsDoneRememberFilmThreeHoursMinutesEasierTheaterDialogueNovelty Author:Woody Allen
“I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensFilmWishBitsMinutesLittle BitCould Have BeenSpectatorsGood Films Author:Guy Jenkin
“Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.” KnowsWellsLongMadeStoriesFilmMinutesAverageNarrativeShort StoryScope Author:Paul Auster
“When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.” PeopleTryingWellsReasonEnoughTogetherFilmThreeGivenAudienceMinutesDirectInvestingKitchenConsistentlySaying NoChatting Author:Bruce Beresford
“When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?'” WantWritingFirstsLooksFilmLinesMinutesSceneFirst TimeHorribleDialogueAssemblyKilling Yourself Author:Bruce Joel Rubin
“Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSaidFilmStrongWaitingFictionWorryMinutesSmartReactionsPulp Author:Eli Roth
“It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensFilmDiesStepsFansMinutesHorrorTwentiesScriptsObviousFactorsScareRubbishHorror FilmHorror Fans Author:Danny Dyer
“The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.” PeopleKnowsArtProblemFilmMinutesSolutionsArt IsBoringMathMathematicalCinemaMath Problems Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.” IfsWholeBigsSeemsFilmRealizingRoomsMillionsNovelCuttingMinutesDyingDisappearEpicEditingClimax Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanWholeAbleFilmThreeChanceMistakeWatchesAudienceFiveMinutesReturnThirdsCategoriesFive MinutesAnnoyedMade A Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.” EnoughTodayFilmMinutesTenShotsCriticsTreatedTargetI Have LearnedGiftedDoriFilm CriticsCheap Shots Author:Roger Ebert
“It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.” PeopleNeedsKindHardHomeBigsFilmMinutesStrangeIndustryPaidFilm IndustryBig Heads Author:Eric Stoltz
“Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.” PeopleWantMeanLongArtFilmHateDiesDealsPayEmotionMistakeStruggleMinutesCamerasWestNosesThrownPrimitiveFascinationLove HateLooking DownSudden DeathOld West Author:John Wayne
“The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.” FirstsCharacterFilmThreeDealsAttitudeAudienceMinutesDemandAmbitionFormalEntrancesCredulityGateways Author:Peter Greenaway
“I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsFeelsWellsKindFilmCausesHurtBreakFiveHappenedMinutesLike YouNeededScreensThank GodFive MinutesLockersTestosteroneHurt Locker Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.” KnowsFirstsFilmGuyDiesStarsMinutesHugeDiedFilm StarsMuppet Author:Billy Connolly
“Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.” PeopleTryingWellsFilmChoicesLinesMinutesDirectorsDetailsBroadsStrokesSubtletyBetween The Lines Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening.” IfsThinkingWantFilmWinningMinutesSeparationEveningEnjoyed Author:Philippe Falardeau
“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)” ThinkingMenWellsKindSaidEnoughBodyFilmTurnsStuffDarkRolesTakenTroubleMinutesPositionHairPicksAreasCamerasAssumingPhotographInvisibleNakedDataFancyDigitalSpidersHollowStarksSpraySpider ManTechniciansDigital CamerasHollow Man Author:Kevin Bacon
“One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.” FirstsFilmAudienceFiveMinutesGreat ThingsFive Minutes Author:William Mapother
“I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.” IfsThinkingTryingKindPersonsHardDoneFilmWatchesCrazyMinutesFineIf I Could Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Seances is an internet project where I intended to adapt at least a hundred and maybe three hundred lost films into ten and twenty minute long fragmentary versions. We then uploaded them to an internet archive that fragmented them even more. We treated them like shreds of lost movie spirits and allowed these spirits to interrupt each other in non-consecutive collisions that formed new movies.” LongFilmSpiritThreeLostMinutesInternetTenProjectsHundredTwentiesTreatedVersionsCollisionArchivesFragmentedConsecutive Author:Guy Maddin
“Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.” KnowsWorldTryingKindPersonsDoeMomentsTogetherFilmFacesSongThreeLinesForgetKnow HowHappenedMinutesKissingPhotographPoetry IsNever ForgetPortraitsChanging Your LifeForget ItSlapBrevity Author:Warsan Shire
“When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and I swallow it back, but sometimes it's real. Whatever it is, it's hard. I don't do the first five or ten minutes of my character's appearance in a movie until the middle of the shooting schedule because I don't want him to be defined by my nervousness. So, we do the middle of the picture first.” WantFirstsRealSometimesHardCharacterFilmNightFiveMiddleMinutesTenMouthsAppearanceDefinedShootingSchedulesWant HimNervousness Author:Donald Sutherland
“I certainly don't feel like I am desperate to run away from a film set. I love the hustle and bustle. Everything is sort of mad right before a take, and then it just settles, and you've got these two minutes of a bit of magic. I just love that in film.” FeelsTwoRunningFilmBitsMagicMinutesMadSettlingDesperateRunning AwayHustleFilm SetBustleHustle And Bustle Author:Saoirse Ronan
“You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here." With drama, there's no pressure in that regard. It's a different kind of pressure, but it's not like we need to make someone laugh.” NeedsKindTwoDifferentFilmResponsibilityAudienceLaughingComedyMinutesDramaPressureRegardDifferent KindsNo PressureMake Someone Laugh Author:Jonah Hill
“I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone else has complete dominance. It's sadistic, even though I find Richard to be a really lovely human being. That's what the whole film "Tickled" is about. It's not a film about tickling, but I think tickling offers a really good visual metaphor for the much bigger ideas that we were trying to get at about power and control - by people who have a lot of money - over people without money and who have no power in the relationship.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansIdeasWholeFilmHuman BeingsMinutesOffersBiggerMetaphorLovelyVisualsChairsTiedLots Of MoneyPowerlessDominanceSadisticPower And ControlTickling Author:David Farrier
“I do believe that a film like Ten could never have been made with a 35mm camera. The first part of the film lasts 17 minutes, and by the end of that part, the kid has totally forgotten the camera.” FirstsBelieveHas BeensMadeEndsKidsLastsFilmMinutesTenCamerasForgotten Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, [that] there's a lot of that, especially with documentaries.” ThinkingWorldMeanFilmUnderstandingRealizingMinutesLetting GoOnlineNew WorldBeing RealDocumentariesTime To Let Go Author:Alex Stapleton