We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock
Look, I don`t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you`re alive you`ve got to flap your arms and legs, you`ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or ...
Mel Brooks
When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, ...
Federico Fellini
I discovered that what`s really important for a creator isn`t what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what`s important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can ...
Federico Fellini
Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can`t teach old fleas new dogs.
Federico Fellini
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what`s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick