Quotes About Experimental Film

#1. You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

Isabella Rossellini

#2. Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.

Noah Hawley

#3. In its purest form, done right, watching an experimental film is the closest you can come to dreaming another person's dreams. Which is why to watch one is, essentially, to invite another person into your head, hoping you emerge haunted.

Gemma Files

#4. I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

Eric Darnell

#5. In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist
but I found I had nothing to say.

Victor Borge

#6. People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.

Carlo Ponti

#7. I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#8. Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy.

Steven Pinker

#9. It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Vint Cerf

#10. Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Jonathan Tropper

#11. Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can ... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

Tina Fey

#12. I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

Jim Coleman

#13. I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

Alex Gibney

#14. Everything, he decided, was almost unbearably sad. Life was wonderful, but nobody seemed to know what to do with it, and the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists.

Craig Rice

#15. There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Len Lye

#16. It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

Marco Rubio

#17. Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Steven Spielberg

#18. Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict.

Plamen Chetelyazov

#19. The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Mason Cooley

#20. I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.

Asif Kapadia

#21. It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

Danny Elfman

#22. When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

George Lucas

#23. I had my back waxed once by two women ... and at one point they said, Do you mind if we take a break?

Robin Williams

#24. The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

Joe Garagiola

#26. I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

Nicolas Cage

#27. There are plenty of models who have children.

Arizona Muse

#28. He had good children and he raised them fine. All doing well -maybe except Joe ... they're talking about sending him to college, but all the rest are fine.

John Steinbeck