"Film is a very intimate medium."

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Film, Critique, Flaws, Talent, Contrast

"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

Henry Miller, American Author

Film, Cinema, Art, Failure, Critique

"Looper is another great film."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Film, Truth, Power, Life

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Film, Impression, Media, Truth

"Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it."

Jack Valenti, American Businessman

Film,

"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

Ken Burns, American Director

Film, Style

"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Film, Now, Reason, Will

"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Film, Memory, Talking

"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian

Film, Right

"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story."

Community, Film

"I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people."

People, Being, Talk

"Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up."

Home, Growing up

"I will be always grateful to NBC."

Will,

"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."

Movies, People, Difference

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

Film, Will

"In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play."

Actor, Basketball, Film, First

"By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do."

Time, Acting, Football

"It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other."

Feet, Want

"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."

Acting, Danger, Want