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

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

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

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite