Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders."
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
Milan Kundera
Writer
"Memory does not make films, it makes photographs."
Kevin Smith
Filmmaker
"Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up."
John Ford
Film Director
"I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism."
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"The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film."
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"I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films."
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"There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films."
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"Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there."
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"Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists."
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"A film that can be described in words is not really a film."
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"To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe."
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"Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?"
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"Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film."
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"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
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"We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?"
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"I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive"."
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"Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man."
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"I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality."
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"A film you can explain in words is not a real film."
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"Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind."
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"Morocco: Looks better in films."
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"I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films."
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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
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"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
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