Found Footage Quotes

#1. 'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.

Richard Corliss

#2. For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli

#3. One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

Oren Peli

#4. Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

Drew Goddard

#5. YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.

Jason Blum

#6. If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.

Daniel Stamm

#7. A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.

Jason Blum

#8. If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

Angelina Jolie

#9. I'm not certain you heard me," O'Neill said.

Charles Duhigg

#10. I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

David Henry Hwang

#11. Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

Rebecca Romijn

#12. There is a devil, and he knows my name.

Daniel Johnston

#13. The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. You don't see, I dare say, Axel, but if you were to listen, you might hear.

Jules Verne

#15. We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

Andy Partridge

#16. It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Sogyal Rinpoche