“How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?” IfsFilmViolenceLet MePolice Author:Jose Padilha
“Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.” PeopleKnowsWorldFilmTelevisionPoliceManageRemarkableCaptureOfficersHeroicPolice OfficerPrisms Author:Daniel Horan
“I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.” MadeTwoFilmRecordsPoliceRadioMovie Author:Sting
“We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.” NeedsLittlesEndsStoriesProblemFilmPoliceStructureSolveCritical Author:Charles Burnett
“I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking at the film, people will say, "Oh yeah, you're criticizing the police." I say, "No."” PeopleThinkingRealityFilmDealsBasesPoliceYeahCriticizeOverwhelming Author:Oren Moverman
“My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.” SoulFilmArtistMinesGoes OnTasteBandStandardsCatPolicePopsListsLocalsGenreRangeScore80sVocalFoldsFunkAnnieMotownBopsFilm Scores Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.” WayArtFactsStoriesRealityFilmFormDesireHumorousCrossesArmyPoliceCamerasFaultsLove StoryCinemaPoeticOccupationThrillersBurlesqueVignettesCheckpointsTableau Author:Elia Suleiman
“One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement - I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.” IdeasFilmLawBornExamplePoliceGhostObsessionObsessedLaw EnforcementHuntersEnforcementSymptomsBadges Author:Dan Aykroyd
“If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.” IfsAmericaFilmKingsLuckyPoliceCamerasRelyBoxingPasserby Author:Don King
“No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.” DoneFilmSawsKingsPoliceOfficersHittingPolice OfficerParole Author:Daryl Gates
“One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."” LooksSaidHandsEyeFilmHouseFriendshipDogMastersPoliceBillsDearTrackEveningSeatsCoveredUsualTwistsLapOliver Twist Author:Winston Churchill
“Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.” PeopleMadeStoriesActionFilmPoliceHumbleAll TimeDisagreeBe HumbleAction Films Author:Jackie Chan
“HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.” IfsMadeWholeFilmHatePoliceMade ItMaking MoneyPolice BrutalityBrutalityHood Author:Mathieu Kassovitz
“In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.” PeopleFilmCommonCitizensPoliceAngryVideoServiceOfficersAggressiveHonorablePeople QuotesPolice BrutalityPolicemenPolice OfficerService To OthersCommon GoodCommon ManPolice CorruptionPolice StatePublicOfficerCitizenService To MankindAggressivenessPolicemanEraPolice ReformPolice ServiceRecordPolicingInteractionsRecordingInteractAngry PeopleCitizen PowerHonorable PersonAggressive BehaviorCitizens Of HumanityFellowFellow HumansFellow Beings Author:Steven Magee