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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

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

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

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

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film. — Tavi Gevinson

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film. — Mark Mothersbaugh

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

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

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

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

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT. — Film Crit Hulk!

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

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

It's hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that. — Anna North

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.' — Asif Kapadia

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion. — Jeffrey Deitch

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology. — Catherine Deneuve

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

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western — Ang Lee

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

Film is the only art form where every single patron has an opinion on how it could have been done better. — Anupama Chopra

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 just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art. — Steven Rodney McQueen

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

it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language. — Andre Bazin

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

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

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

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 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

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like. — St. Vincent

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

If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you. — Ilya Ilf

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

What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence. — Nora Roberts

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

I was truly ignorant about art before the film. — Claire Forlani

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

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

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it. — LL Cool J

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art. — Signe Baumane

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

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

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

Be your own independent film channel. — Art Hochberg

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools! — Tom Six

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

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! — Gene Wilder

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. — Lisa Bonet

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

Film and art are close together. — Arne Glimcher

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

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

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