Quotes on Movie

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.