Movies Quotes
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.[Explaining why the hero's woman must get shot]
Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- "That's for you!" [On shooting Schindler's List]
Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football.[When asked if making movies is fun]
I'm gonna do four or five of these movies, and it's going to become my career. I'll have to keep expanding the bat suit, because I get fatter every year. I'll be bankrupt. I'll be out opening shopping malls, going from appearance to appearance in a cheesy van.[On playing Batman]
When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.
create your own personalised little world, reflecting your particular tastes ; the concept of a communal lifestyle, a shared culture acting as a societal glue, is becoming increasingly obsolete.
What's happened to movie-watching in the 90s is much the same as what's happened to TV-watching, or to a million other things in our increasingly custom-made, individualised, consumer-oriented world. Quite simply, you can now
in a way they are disposable.
We're all watching movies more than ever, wasting time in quantities that would've made my grandparents blanch. Throw in TV and video and it's clear that we're way beyond saturation - our whole lives are determined, one way or the other, by moving images. Yet we treat films as though they were utterly disposable - and indeed
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
Watching films in a cinema is in many ways like going to school. You sit where you're told, surrounded by others, all of you there for a common purpose. You're not allowed to talk, just listen quietly. You might not believe what you see and hear, but only a troublemaker would question it out loud. The only difference is you can walk out - but you're immediately conspicuous if you do so, and people give you dirty looks if you make any noise.
Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater; those that employ the resources of cinematography.
They're either at your throat or they're at your feet.
They are stupid, dirty, do not work hard enough and are content with their little cinema shows.
There is a kind of franchising of movies going on right now, in which the big studio product is like fast food: bad for you, but available on every corner. Good and challenging movies are limited to release in big cities and in a handful of independently booked cinemas. Whole states and sections of the country never see the best new films on big screens, and they're not always easy to find on video.