Top 27 Film Theory Quotes
#1. You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.
Stephanie Zacharek
#2. All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.
Terry Gilliam
#3. My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.
Christopher Doyle
#4. Since there are Indian movies, of necessity there is an Indian film theory that informs Indian scholars. However, that theory remains to be formulated.
Gaston Roberge
#5. I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.
John Hyams
#6. I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.
David Brooks
#7. I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.
Allan Moyle
#8. Film theory has nothing to do with film.
Roger Ebert
#10. They live inside of what is essentially one huge wearable. Everyone connected to everyone even when they shit.
Brenda Cooper
#11. I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
Annie Lennox
#12. I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.
Jordan Bridges
#13. Love yourself first to fill your heart with bliss. Now give it away with humility, love, and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#14. I have this theory that if you do a film, those who have not fallen asleep or left the cinema, they will live with the film much longer, and it will really enter their imagination and the subconscious much more profoundly.
Pawel Pawlikowski
#15. I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.
Tom Rachman
#16. It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.
Gerhard Richter
#17. I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
Jeff Bridges
#18. I have a theory ... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.
Shaun Sipos
#19. I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
Danny Boyle
#20. I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
Charlie Hunnam
#21. My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
Jay Roach
#22. Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
Janet Macunovich
#23. When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.
Louis Leterrier
#24. The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
Kapil Sharma
#26. The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.
Dwayne Andreas
#27. I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
Tamra Davis
