“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.” PeopleWayWantHardFactsFilmSexPowerfulEmotionMysteryAspectFlatsMysticalDoorwaysExplicit Author:David Lynch
“I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.” ImportantSelfBodyFilmFeltMysteryActressesConfessionScandal Author:Claudia Cardinale
“It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.” LightFilmBlackWhiteMagicMysteryFeetCarDrivingBlack And WhiteGnarly Author:Conrad Hall
“Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingLongSometimesStoriesFilmFunWatchesMysteryGoes OnSceneMurderSuspenseParanoiaMurder Mysteries Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.” PeopleFeelsMadeSaidWantedFilmViewsMysteryEasierHorrorDistanceHorror FilmExorcist Author:William Friedkin
“For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and I guess there are other references in other films I make - the similar type of image. But I think it's interesting, it's breaking through the mystery, or maybe it stays in the fog... we don't really know. Where is he at the beginning of the film, who is he?” ThinkingKnowsFilmInterestingMysteryKeysTypeBoatFog Author:Martin Scorsese
“In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.” PeopleNeedsFilmMovingLeftSimpleMysteryUncomfortableTerritoryKeep MovingUnfathomableGreat Film Author:Martin Scorsese
“Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.” WantBeautifulFilmMysteryWoods Author:David Lynch
“Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but in the course of working something shows up on the film or in the print that speaks to me. I can never predict when this will happen. However, when it does there is an excitement - there is the ecstasy of recognition. And this is one of the things that keeps me going.” DoeI CanShowsHappensFilmCoursesSpeakKnownMysterySubjectsRecognitionExcitementPrintEcstasyStanding OutNever Quit Author:Ray Metzker
“There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.” ChildrenLittlesFilmLeftMystery Author:Mark Lanegan
“Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces. And you can do an amazing job, but if the camera isn't getting it, it doesn't work. And then other times when you feel you really weren't present, and then you see it and somehow it works. So there's a mystery, there's a strange collaboration that takes place with everybody.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesJobsFilmBitsCan DoPiecesSeeingMysteryStrangeLittle BitTheaterCamerasCollaborationBits And PiecesAmazing Job Author:Susan Sarandon
“It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.” WorldFeelingsSeemsFilmSimpleTalkingMysteryElementsOrdinaryThirdsUniversalIrrationalOrdinary World Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsKindJobsFilmMysteryTheater Author:Anna Kendrick
“Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they only end up looking like some crappy, pretentious film-school thing. So I think the interest in film is really about the fashion world finding another form of expression.” ThinkingWorldTryingFilmInterestMysteryFashionPoeticPretentious Author:Johan Renck
“Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.” PeopleThinkingTryingDreamFilmFallMysteryAppreciateFalling In LoveAbstractConcreteGoing To Work Author:David Lynch
“I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.” FilmMysteryFilmmaker Author:Kim Longinotto
“The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.” HumansWellsCharacterFilmFictionMysteryScience FictionRobots Author:John Podhoretz
“It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.” IfsBelieveLooksPersonsFactsFilmFacesLevelsMysteryMissingStaringLensesThrillersMissing You Author:Kevin Spacey