Werner Herzog Quote

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

• Art

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Keanu Reeves

In all my films, there's three or maybe four minutes of real cinema.

Akira Kurosawa

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Jodie Foster

• Passion

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

Andrzej Wajda

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Iris Murdoch

• Death

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau

• Art

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

D. H. Lawrence

• Passion

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

D. H. Lawrence

• Death
• Passion

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Val Kilmer

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

• Religion
• Humanity
• Passion

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

• Religion
• Humanity
• Art
• Passion

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Inspirational
• Death
• Famous

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

Francis Ford Coppola

The film that made the greatest impression was "La roue" by Abel Gance. It made me think cinema was wonderful.

Akira Kurosawa

I am not for the death penalty and so making this film did not change my point of view. I think it made me more aware of how ineffective it is.

Charlize Theron

• Death
• Change

Directing, I realize, on film is far more personal, you know. Cinema really is a director's medium. This is a very personal film.

Sam Mendes

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

D. H. Lawrence

• Morality
• Art
• Passion

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Francis Ford Coppola