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Film History Quotes & Sayings

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A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently. — James Cromwell

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know. — Graham King

Most human cooperation networks have been geared towards oppression and exploitation. — Yuval Noah Harari

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film. — Garry Marshall

Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness. — Rabindranath Tagore

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word. — Rudolf Steiner

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history. — Louise Brooks

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. — David Lynch

The authentic self is the soul made visible. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history. — Pirjo Honkasalo

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society. — Joni Eareckson Tada

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. — Jacques Rivette

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store. — Reinhold Messner

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories. — Melissa Harris-Perry

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. — Kara Walker

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. — David Strathairn

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. — Corey Hart

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver. — Kodak Eastman

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. — Suzanne Farrell

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future. — B.H. Liddell Hart

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States. — Demian Bichir

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television. — Dylan McDermott

Tune in to the intuitive messages emanating from your heart. They are the essence of who you are and who you wish to become. — Steven Redhead

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema? — Christy Lemire

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. — Johnny Depp

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. — Werner Herzog

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music. — Daniel Barenboim

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk. — Alanis Obomsawin

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. — Steven Spielberg

Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money. — Roger Miller

Today's youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon. — Teruyo Nogami

World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

This is history written in lightning. — Woodrow Wilson

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. — Flea

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary? — Brigid Pasulka

I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour.. — Rosamund Hodge

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. — Cary Fukunaga

Her eyes were tired, but we're seniors. All seniors have dead eyes. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films. — Jenni Olson

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it. — Eugene Levy