Moving-on Quotes

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

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

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

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.