“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?” IfsYearsFirstsWantedFilmThreeProcessPresidentAudienceWeekTelevisionRevolutionHollywoodCreditCables Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.” ThinkingWantFilmRevolutionFilmmakerOwnershipMould Author:Nate Parker
“Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.” IfsWantMadeFilmCan DoRevolutionMade ItDigitalInexpensiveDigital Revolution Author:John Carpenter
“The revolution of video had a massive affect. We grew up in a time where suddenly you could own films. Before, they had a theatrical run, and then perhaps they'd come back, or you'd catch them in a retro cinema.” RunningFilmRevolutionGrewGrew UpVideoCinemaMassiveTheatricalRetro Author:Simon Pegg
“The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.” WayNeedsFilmAudienceRevolutionIndustryTheaterTricksFilm IndustryMovie Theater Author:Michel Ocelot
“The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.” WayFilmChangedRevolutionPressureExpensiveDigitalDigital Revolution Author:Colm Meaney
“Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.” WorldSometimesBigsFilmJoyFunActingCitiesWatchesPiecesRevolutionCreatingMachinesScalesSquaresWowPlaygroundsCollaborating Author:Keanu Reeves
“Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and I'm well aware of how complex the situation really was. But it goes without saying is that the West immediately infiltrated and 'derailed' the revolutions, turning them into what you have described.” WellsFilmSituationMovementRevolutionSpringWestComplexesGenuineInstanceSocialistEgyptArab SpringTunisiaBahrain Author:Andre Vltchek
“[ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.” ThinkingMeanLittlesI CanTogetherFilmNumbersRevolutionRight NowFasterDigitalPensEditingEditsVolcanoesDoing RightScribblesCelluloidDigital Revolution Author:Werner Herzog
“Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.” WayNeedsShouldStillsFilmChangedRevolutionMy WayDigitalFilmmakingNostalgicCelluloidDigital Revolution Author:Werner Herzog
“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.” PeopleWayImportantUseFilmWaterRightsTroubleMovementRevolutionCrisisExcitedDebtDialogueCivil RightsExecutivesPlatformsDocumentariesNew OrleansCivil Rights MovementInvitingSoundtracksForumsDebt Crisis Author:Danny Glover
“I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of Brakhage. For me, it was a revolution, because I was well educated in film, but American-style experimental film was known to me in the abstract, and I had seen practically nothing. I had seen a film then that Noël Burch had found and was distributing called Echoes of Silence. It was a beautiful film, three hours long. It goes forever and it was in black and white, very grainy, and I saw that film and I thought...it was not New Wave. It was really a new concept of cinema.” LongBeautifulFilmBlackHoursSilenceForeverRevolutionWaveSnowEducatedAbstractBlack And White Author:Babette Mangolte
“When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast it and do all the work and can be just a month away from shooting, and all of a sudden, the whole thing goes up in smoke. But I do think the advent of a digital revolution is going to provide people with opportunities to make films that they never would have had before. I think you can do some pretty credible stuff now with very, very little money. Which I think is great for young filmmakers.” PeopleThinkingDifferentSometimesReasonFilmOpportunityRevolutionFilmmakerAdvent Author:Joe Dante
“To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art form. It's a film that is revolting against the old established language of cinema that had been brainwashing the people for decades. It is a film that is trying to find ways to use sound and image differently.” PeopleTryingArtFilmLanguageRevolutionRevolutionaryBrainwashing Author:Tamer El Said