And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.
It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.
She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream?
The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.
Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
Hopefully one day wars will only be fought in movies and may the best producer win
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.
