Browsing Topic Best Good Films Quotes

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It’s going away. Judge the movie – is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it’s being judged for just being a good film.

I’m hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it’s on opening week or sometime later. That’s certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made.

The power of good film is being there in the moment.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

One’s ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you’re seeing.

I’ve always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you’ve got to get it right.

I like a drama. And I think that’s the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain – that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

We’ve got a great team of editors, that’s true. And we work hard so that when we do the couple of takes that they’re good takes hopefully. Not always, that’s for sure; there are lots of bad ones, but we try to work hard. Clint Eastwood doesn’t more than one or two takes in his films. And he makes some good films.

I’ve made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

I’m not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I’d rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn’t pay well. … To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you’re doing okay.

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It’s been playing there for 25 years.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle. I used to think that meant hit and run. But then I’ve changed my definition about what lightning in a bottle means. I think it means that you wait for that surprising moment that you really didn’t expect would happen, as good as it may have gone in rehearsal.

I can’t think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Hopefully, I’ll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that’s how it will develop.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn’t come at the push of a button.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it’s rare that you don’t come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn’t structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They’re either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I’m a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn’t resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There’s just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.

A good film is also a documentary

I guess I’m not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

The ‘human situation,’ in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.