148 Best Art Quotes

I want to top myself. That's my goal. Other people don't really matter. – Quentin Tarantino

I'm not a politician. I'm a storyteller. – Quentin Tarantino

I want to make movies that are remembered. – Quentin Tarantino

I don't make movies to make money. I make movies to make movies. – Quentin Tarantino

I'm not interested in making a message movie. I'm interested in telling a story. – Quentin Tarantino

Theatrical movies are one of the last mass-experience mediums we have. – Christopher Nolan

I don't make movies to make money; I make money to make more movies. – Steven Spielberg

I think the audience is the final collaborator. – Steven Spielberg

I'm not a politician. I'm a filmmaker. My job is to hold a mirror up to the world, not to change it. – Steven Spielberg

I try to make movies for myself, but I also make them for the audience. It's a very delicate balance. – Steven Spielberg

I don't think there's any science to being a good storyteller. I think it's an instinct. – Steven Spielberg

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out? – Alfred Hitchcock

There is something more important than logic: imagination. – Alfred Hitchcock

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. – Alfred Hitchcock

Unless you have a really good reason to make a film, it's not worth the trouble. – Akira Kurosawa

The most important asset I have is my intuition. – Akira Kurosawa

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. – Akira Kurosawa

I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often much more beautiful than sound pictures are. – Akira Kurosawa

A film is a picture of the wind. You can't photograph the wind itself, but you can photograph its effect on the world. – Akira Kurosawa

There is something that might be called the beauty of sorrow. No one can paint it as well as the Japanese. – Akira Kurosawa

I have never once made a film with a preconceived message. – Akira Kurosawa

When you are shooting a film, you are creating a new world. – Akira Kurosawa

Cinema is a frame. Within that frame, you can capture reality, or you can create a new one. – Akira Kurosawa

The essence of a good film is that it makes you forget you are sitting in a theater. – Akira Kurosawa

To say a film is good or bad is like saying a piece of music is good or bad. It depends on what it does to you. – Francis Ford Coppola

An essential element of any art is risk. – Francis Ford Coppola

I think that cinema is a language, and it can say things that are very complex. – Francis Ford Coppola

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Francis Ford Coppola

Part of the problem with American cinema today is that the films are made by committees. – Francis Ford Coppola

The best kind of movie is one that you can watch over and over again and always find something new. – Francis Ford Coppola

I'm more interested in the truth than in the facts. – Francis Ford Coppola

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. – Hayao Miyazaki

I don't think about the audience when I make my films. I make them for myself. – Hayao Miyazaki

The power to create something comes from the frustration of not being able to express yourself. – Hayao Miyazaki

I try to put as much of my real self as possible into my films. – Hayao Miyazaki

When you are creating, you are living. – Hayao Miyazaki

I think animation is something that should not be confined to children. It should be enjoyed by everyone. – Hayao Miyazaki

The beauty of the medium is that you can take something that is ugly and find a way to make it beautiful. – David Fincher

You have to be willing to be disliked. You have to be willing to make people uncomfortable. – David Fincher

I think that the enemy of art is fear. – Denis Villeneuve

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. – Ingmar Bergman

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. – Ingmar Bergman

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. – Ingmar Bergman

It is my opinion that art lost its creative urge the moment it was separated from worship. – Ingmar Bergman

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency. – Ingmar Bergman

What is art? A question that has been asked for centuries. For me, art is the human capacity to make something wonderful and unique. – Ingmar Bergman

I have never thought about the audience. For me, the audience doesn't exist. – Ingmar Bergman

The actor is the most direct and immediate instrument of the art of the theater. – Ingmar Bergman