#cinema

I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#david-lynch #david-lynch-keeps-his-head #film #twin-peaks #movies

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#armageddon #cinema #death #end-of-the-world #life

In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem. ↗

— Rutger Hauer

#film #experience

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#imagination

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cinema #color #films #prayer #love

I kind of love Colin Farrell again. I think it started with In Bruges. No, I’m lying. It started when I saw a clip of his sex tape where he’s manning the camera and instead of getting all Sex Tape-y, he goes, quite genuinely, “GOD, I’m a TERRIBLE cinematographer. ↗

— Jessica Morgan

#cinematography #colin-farrell #love

I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject,—a discovery of the “Other,” an exploration of difference. ↗

— Jean Rouch

#art

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

— Björk

#females #feminism #film #gender #men

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

— Martin Scorsese

#film #filmmaking #movies #movies

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#hollywood #movies #tyrone-power #movies