“Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.” FirstsEndsMomentsFilmVisionSawsNew YorkShotsExtraordinaryCome UpTheatreAll TimeReleaseObsessedThat MomentFavouriteNunCapitolHitchcockVistasVertigo Author:Martin Scorsese
“Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."” IfsNeedsFeelsI CanJobsFilmCan DoSawsLike YouYesterdayCinemaGood FilmsBad Jobs Author:Agnes Varda
“I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage...it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.” WayFirstsBigsFilmCultureSawsStageCompareAffectedSpitDallas Author:Roy Orbison
“I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".” SaidI CanFilmHateWishMy OwnSawsCitizensI HateHornsBest FilmCitizen Kane Author:Barbra Streisand
“I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.” WritingFirstsKidsFilmGirlNovelSawsCrazyFansTasteHorrorSquaresSuburbsHorror FilmHitchcock Author:Karen Walton
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron
“The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.” TwoEndsMomentsKidsFilmGuyDestinySawsFootballShotsWesternUglyDramaticKicksPenaltiesLiteralHomageMetaphoricalTwo GuysGood The Bad And The UglySergio Leone Author:Carlos Cuaron
“I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of Singham, I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.” FirstsActionFilmOpportunitySawsReturnDirectFirst LoveRelianceRemakesAction Films Author:Rohit Shetty
“I am horror fan in that I think that they are very effective on me. I get scared very easily. I am a scaredy cat. When I was younger, my mom used to rent Alfred Hitchock films, so I saw a couple of those and I was terrified by them.” ThinkingFilmUsedSawsFansMomCoupleHorrorCatScaredMy MomTerrifiedHorror Fans Author:Alexandra Daddario
“The Movie is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.” KnowsMadeFilmSawsMinesInvolvedShotsMy FriendsBunchFilmmakerNo MoneyLukeCameos Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.” FilmGirlHouseAnimalClassSawsCollegeLuckyCardsAdvertisingBrokeBoardsInstituteSo LuckyBulletin Board Author:Karen Allen
“I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.” DoneFilmSawsTvsBetrayalRonin Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingRealEnoughSeemsFilmBitsInterestingMillionsSawsSeaStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyDisasterReal LifeHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick
“I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.” ThinkingWellsBookHomeTogetherFilmFatherVisionLordSawsMy FamilyOriginalsRingsMy SisterPeterImpressedUnclesAuntLord Of The Ring Author:Evangeline Lilly
“If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.” PeopleIfsKindI CanHomeEyeRememberFilmFoundSawsFansHonestTelevisionHugeScaryTeenagerStaringScareHalloweenBlurLogosBeing A Teenager Author:Imogen Poots
“I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.” WayNeedsGivingStoriesWantedFilmCompassionSawsHorrorGenreDesperateTouchedReceivingPlausibleTime Of NeedGiving And ReceivingDesperate Times Author:Vera Farmiga
“The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without understanding his process, and then coming to learn it later on, I would never be the actor I am now.” JobsFilmActorsProcessUnderstandingSawsTypeAmountAspectPreparation Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“What I've always loved about watching movies myself of course that's [Bas] Luhrmann. His Moulin Rouge! is incredible, his Romeo + Juliet. Wow. You know. When I saw those, those really were transformative films for me.” KnowsFilmCoursesSawsIncrediblesWowJulietRomeo JulietRouge Author:Fredrik Bond
“When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film.” YearsWellsMeanMadeTwoTodayFilmThreeSawsLowsBudgetsExploitationFrozenDistributionTheatrical Author:Roger Corman
“[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.” YearsFilmUsedEasyCitiesSawsCoupleShotsPhotographStartingParisJapanMexicoAlcoholicsRidersMexico CityNikonEasy Rider Author:Dennis Hopper
“'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'” YearsFilmSawsSixPlaygroundsSkateboarderPopular Film Author:Tobin Bell
“Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.” PeopleKindHas BeensMadeDoneStoriesFilmViewsSawsPoint Of ViewLove StoryIngredientsFrustratedOpposing Author:Sydney Pollack
“My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.” MenKindFilmMotherCertainFatherNamesSawsStrangerTreated Author:Sidney Poitier
“While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and it was a lovely experience. You can watch old silent films on DVD or even on YouTube, but it was a different feeling watching her up on the big screen, seeing the film the way people saw it all those years ago.” PeopleWayWritingYearsBookDifferentFeelingsBigsFilmCitiesWatchesSawsSeeingYears AgoSilentBoxesScreensLovelyYoutubeBrooksDvdsKansasBig ScreenPandoraKansas CityPandora's BoxSilent FilmsDifferent Feelings Author:Laura Moriarty
“I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial.” WritingMindWantedFilmSawsFilmmakerRealisedScreenplaysGet MoneySynthesisDolce Vita Author:Rebecca Miller
“I want to write a score for a film. It can be a proper film, maybe for a film kind of like... I saw that movie 'Drive', or a bit of a 'Blade Runner' vibe. A little bit sci-fi, but I don't know. I've just always wanted to write a score for a film.” KnowsWantWritingKindLittlesWantedFilmBitsSawsLittle BitScoreSci FiRunnersBladesBlade Runner Author:Flume
“My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.” FirstsFilmSawsMy FavoriteAfternoonAvant GardeMesh Author:Chris Hegedus
“My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.” KindAgeFilmYoungFatherSawsAll KindsYoung AgeHooked Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.” ThinkingBelieveKindStillsRealFilmHeavenHalfMillionsSawsFeetAmountShotsPressureDown AndResponseHonestlyGatesThis DayAggressiveArrogantGreat AmericanAmerican Film Author:Richard Masur
“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.” PeopleKnowsTwoDifferentRealRealityFilmGuyGirlHoursRoomsTalkingSawsTvsSceneSevenScreensShootingRanHotelJeansBerlinSuperstarMasturbationReality TvChelseaLsdExhibitionistAmphetaminesShooting Up Author:Bob Colacello
“I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.” BigsFilmCitiesSawsMexicoMainstreamAmerican FilmMexico City Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country.” KnowsFirstsCountryRememberFilmSawsDiscoveryFirst TimeI RealizedFascinatedLayersShockedNew DiscoveriesKurosawa Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksCountryRealityFilmLosesNumbersSawsParticularPerspectiveDiedYesterdayOther CountriesViewersBombing Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to be a part of it, if just in spirit and Don's desire for it to be a good film and for me to be happy with it. When I first saw it I was very impressed, and it gets better with repeat viewings.” IfsFirstsFilmSpiritDesireSawsGladGet BetterRepeatsImpressedSublimeGood FilmsIt Gets Better Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.” IfsFilmMovingExistenceSawsCenturyChangedTelevisionWalkingUnconsciousHumankindSubconsciousTigers20th CenturyTotalityFilm And Television Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)” WorldWayLooksKindMeanSelfMomentsSeemsFilmDoubtSawsEmotionalPerspectiveProudFilledPhotographNarrativeThat MomentShiftingSelf-doubt Author:Anton Yelchin