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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. — Mike Figgis

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film. — Winona Ryder

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old. — John Landis

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films. — Mary Harron

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. — David Gilmour

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts. — Stan Brakhage

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer. — Mike Mills

I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental. — Asif Kapadia

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact. — Robert Redford

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art. — Sally Menke

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. — Shailene Woodley

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message. — Chester Elijah Branch

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life. — A.D. Posey

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure. — Robert Stromberg

One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. — Michael Arndt

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms. — Spike Lee

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. — Bruce Springsteen

Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources. — Abhijit Naskar

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. — Ingmar Bergman

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less. — Francis Ford Coppola

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film. — Donnie Yen

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. — Matt Sorum

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that. — Abhijit Naskar

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts. — David Brown

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. — Ahmed Best

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza. — Molly Haskell

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. — Walter Benjamin

The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats. — Theodore Roszak

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made. — Roger Corman

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money. — Richard Flanagan

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. — Ira Sachs

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. — Ann Macbeth

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film. — Ruth Negga

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy. — Bob Hope

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. — Tim Robbins

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

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires. — Nicolas Winding Refn

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century. — Charlton Heston

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film. — Ken Adam

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. — Andy Samberg

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. — Carlo Ponti

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously. — James Franco

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film. — Jack O'Connell

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. — Sara Sheridan