Powerful Film Quotes

#1. As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

Peter Landesman

#2. It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

James Dobson

#3. Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#4. I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

Estelle Morris

#5. The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

Alex Kendrick

#6. Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

Wim Wenders

#7. All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

Leonardo DiCaprio

#9. Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away

Kevin Spacey

#10. I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Nicolas Cage

#11. I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.

Evan Rachel Wood

#12. What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

Dinesh D'Souza

#13. Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

Suzanne Collins

#14. When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.

Ezra Miller

#15. I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

Ellen Page

#16. I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Lisa Bonet

#17. I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nicolas Cage

#18. Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Peter Jackson

#19. The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

Hector Tobar

#20. Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#21. Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you ... just open your heart.

Judie Brown

#22. Kurosawa was one of film's true greats ... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him.

George Lucas

#23. That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.

Sharlto Copley

#24. Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#25. I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Spike Lee

#26. The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#27. Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Craig Hatkoff

#28. I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.

Arnaud Desplechin

#29. Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

Ben Edwards

#30. I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

George Lucas

#31. I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

Naomie Harris

#32. I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

Werner Herzog

#33. Limitless is a powerful and incrediable movie. Everyone should check it out!

Deyth Banger

#34. I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

Danny Glover

#35. We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

Mira Nair

#36. Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presents a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds, this film is a very powerful tool.

Rob Hopkins

#37. Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Kevin Spacey

#38. I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.

Jehane Noujaim

#39. At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

Julia Bacha

#40. I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

Michelle Rodriguez

#41. I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

Galen Rowell

#42. Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

Morgan Spurlock

#43. 'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Demian Bichir

#44. I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Denis Villeneuve

#45. I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

Martha Hunt

#46. I think of all media, television is the most powerful when it comes to selling books, because when you have a feature film, yeah, there's a rush. But then after that month is over and the movie goes out of release, that's it.

Tess Gerritsen

#47. I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me.

Franny Armstrong