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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman

Music, Art, Deep

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Oliver Stone

Beauty, Work, Beautiful

Pain is temporary, film is forever.
Michael J. Fox

Pain, Forever, Temporary

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg

Through, Knowing, Camera

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard

Play, Write, Cooking

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life, Good, Fear

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. Nixon

Moment, President, Memory

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
Michael Caine

Love, America, Foreigners

I think making a good film shot is joyful.
William Shatner

Good, Making, Joyful

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch

Art, Simple, Enjoy

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg

Director, Weren, Composer

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Tom Stoppard

Young, Television, Writers

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman

Change, Music, Book

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

Art, Movies, Thinking

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford Coppola

Movies, Made, Magic

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien Leigh

Life, Fake, Star

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga

Future, Working, Camera

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Find, Idea

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
William Shatner

Time, Sad, Character

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
William Shatner

Good, Within, Drama

I'm anxious to make another film.
William Shatner

Another, Anxious

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
William Shatner

Live, Place, Left

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas

Secret, Illusion

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
John Malkovich

Impossible, Lose, Often

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
Paul Kane

Same, Public, General

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
Martin Scorsese

Another, Maybe, Number

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Sleep, Writing

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'
Chris Rock

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
Jeff Bridges

Art, Everyone, Universe

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