Quotes of: Documentary-film Keyword

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

William Hurt

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

Wong Kar-wai

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.

Cary Fukunaga

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

George Clooney

I have done several films, but I've mostly done TV, and 99% of the work I've done has been in Japan.

Julie Dreyfus

There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.

John Rhys-Davies

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

Michel Legrand

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

Otto Preminger

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

Park Chan-wook

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'

Shane Black

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Sissy Spacek

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

Verne Troyer

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Werner Herzog

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Richard LaGravenese

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.

David Oyelowo

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, ha...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is prod...

Eating Animals

[It] could be argued that the favorite sin of Satan would not be vanity, as described in 'Devil's Advocate', or even unbelief in the existence of the devil, as described in 'The Usual Suspects,' but the imagining of a generic, Christless God. The ver...

Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment

Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour and makes it worthwhile. Desire is the original anarchist and undercover agent – no wonder people want it arrested and k...

Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

Eddie Valiant: Can I borrow your camera? Mine's at the shop. Dolores: Wouldn't be the pawn shop, by any chance? Eddie Valiant: C'mon, Dolores. You want the other fifty, I need the camera. [Dolores hands Eddie the camera] Eddie Valiant: Any film in th...

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