Films Quotes

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

It's a question of a good story and with a small documentary, you can reach many people. I think it means that people are not stupid.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

Filmmakers of Cinema Verité resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Film has to describe and show.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

We are now up against live, hostile targets. So, if Little Red Riding Hood should show up with a bazooka and a bad attitude, I expect you to chin the bitch.

I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don’t want to just collect more fuel.

Quality is the best business plan.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.