Film proverbs

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◆ Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky98

◆ Meet me in Montauk...

- Charlie Kaufman98

◆ Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

- Derek Jarman98

◆ I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much; my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude—for every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure; but don't worry….you will someday.

- Alan Ball98

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

- David Gilmour98

◆ After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

- Harmony Korine98

◆ We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

- Krzysztof Kie?lowski98

◆ Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

- Pauline Kael98

◆ Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

- Satyajit Ray98

◆ Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

- Abhijeet Sawant98

◆ As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

- Iain Banks98

◆ Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose.

- Ann Brashares98

◆ Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

- Robert Rodríguez98

◆ Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

- Frank Lentricchia98

◆ Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

- Luis Bu?uel98