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I'll watch anything, from action to art films. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art. -- Carlo Ponti
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films. -- Mary Harron
Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece. -- Christopher Bollen
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art. -- Halle Berry
So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that could only destroy the films "reality". -- Haruki Murakami
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too. -- Francine Pascal
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning. -- Andy Milonakis
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making. -- Harold Ramis
In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. -- Ron Perlman
Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. -- Ron Perlman
You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli. -- Quentin Tarantino
Film and art are close together. -- Arne Glimcher
Poetry is a totally different art than film. -- Stan Brakhage
I was truly ignorant about art before the film. -- Claire Forlani
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. -- Sydney Pollack
I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art. -- Joe Wright
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. -- Martin Scorsese
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! -- Gene Wilder
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. -- Ann Macbeth
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. -- Pink
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. -- Richard Linklater
I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art. -- Steven Rodney McQueen
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. -- Jean Cocteau
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. -- Jim Morrison
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. -- Michael Arndt
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. -- Ahmed Best
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. -- Joe Wright
I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films. -- Art Alexakis
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. -- David Cronenberg
Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world -- Shah Rukh Khan
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. -- Jean-Luc Godard
One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. -- Michael Arndt
American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art. -- Woody Allen
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. -- Susan Sontag
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity. -- Sean Lennon
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them. -- Oliver Stone
A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films. -- Max Tundra
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. -- M. Night Shyamalan
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies. -- Alan Parker
I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema and documentaries. -- Pamela Yates
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made. -- Roger Corman
I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about. -- Lisa Cholodenko
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice, they are only interested in art, not in justice. -- Efraim Zuroff
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on. -- Billy Wilder
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films. -- Arjun Rampal
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art. -- Helen Mirren
I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary. -- Kevin Munroe
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture. -- John Cassavetes
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films. -- Agnes Varda
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely. -- Charlton Heston
My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. -- Noah Baumbach
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. -- Alex North

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