“There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.” ArtActionFilmPoliticalSocialConscienceGood ArtAction FilmsBourne Author:Joe Wright
“I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.” ThinkingFilmPoliticalNeededToneSharpnessRobocop Author:Jose Padilha
“It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.” FilmPoliticalDeathWishBlackWhiteForeverProductsSellsFinancialHospitalsShadeFear Of DeathLive ForeverPharmaceuticalDoomsday Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.” HumansMadeFilmPoliticalSocialMy OwnHuman BeingsMade ItLandscapeRealism Author:Paddy Considine
“As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?” ThinkingFilmPoliticalFatherLiteraturePossibilityCommitmentOrganizationSupportiveEvaluate Book:Civil Wars Source: Civil Wars
“If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.” IfsThinkingLastsFilmPoliticalShootingParisIdeologicalTango Author:Bernardo Bertolucci
“I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.” I CanIdeasProblemFilmPoliticalDealsOne ThingSellsWorking It Author:Shane Carruth