Film Art Quotes
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Film Art Quotes & Sayings
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.
— Shailene Woodley
Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
— Robert Bresson
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
— Stan Brakhage
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
— Mary Harron
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
— Mike Mills
Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway.
— James Monaco
Observation is a dying art.
— Stanley Kubrick
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
— Jean Cocteau
The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.
— Robert Redford
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
— Clint Eastwood
I do not accept the art and commerce divide in cinema. I maintain that you either have a good film or a bad film.
— Sakti Sengupta
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
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
— Sydney Pollack
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
— Val Kilmer
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
— Sydney Pollack
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
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
— Philippe Petit
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
— Tim Robbins
Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.
— Robert Stromberg
I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.
— Steven Rodney McQueen
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
— Slavoj Zizek
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
— Jack O'Connell
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
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 felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.
— Simon Kinberg
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
— Pauline Kael
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
— Robert Bresson
Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.
— Matt Sorum
There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
— Gia Coppola
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
— Billy Wilder
So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
— Ray Harryhausen
I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.
— Sally Menke
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
— Bruce Springsteen
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
— Michael Arndt
I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.
— Art Alexakis
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
— Catherine Deneuve
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
— Norman McLaren
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."
— Denise Duhamel
Be your own independent film channel.
— Art Hochberg
I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
— Yasmine Al Masri
Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.
— Richard Flanagan
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
— Claire Forlani
The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.
— Theodore Roszak
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
— Walter Benjamin
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
— Molly Haskell
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
— Ingmar Bergman
I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
— Lisa Cholodenko
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
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
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western
— Ang Lee
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
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
— Jeffrey Deitch
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
— Tavi Gevinson
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.
— Roger Deakins
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
— Charlton Heston
ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.
— Film Crit Hulk!
Film is the only art form where every single patron has an opinion on how it could have been done better.
— Anupama Chopra
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
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.
— Mark Mothersbaugh
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
— Charlton Heston
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
— Ahmed Best
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
— Asif Kapadia
Film and art are close together.
— Arne Glimcher
