Film-written films are expressed through the relationship between images and sounds, rather than through the imitation of movements and tones (of actors or non-actors). It does not analyze or explain. It reorganizes. ——Robert Bresson (France)

To better understand a film's tendencies, it is best to first understand how the film expresses its tendencies. ——André Bazin (France)

I am old now. The older you get, the deeper you think. I can no longer grasp things on the surface of the water. I think underwater. ——Jean-Luc Godard (France)

When fantasy turns to love, intuition does not always follow. ——Eric Rohmer (France)

The foundation of film art lies in editing. ——Pudovkin (Soviet Union)

Actors are also human beings, no different from others. A writer, painter, or musician can hide in a corner and lick his wounds clean, but an actor must endure the pain in public. ——Maureen Stapleton (USA)

My films are never meant to be realistic, they are mirrors, fragments of reality, almost like dreams. ——Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)

I am not interested in the development of the plot and the connection of events. I think that each of my films does not need a plot. ——Andrei Tarkovsky (Soviet Union)

Place a person in an ever-changing environment, let him pass by countless people far or near, let him He has a relationship with the whole world: that's what cinema is about. ——Andrei Tarkovsky (Soviet Union)

The movie begins with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami (Abbas). ——Jean-Luc Godard (France)

It’s hard to find the exact words to comment on Kiarostami’s (Abbas) films, just watch them to understand how amazing he is. I was devastated when Rey died. Later, I saw the film of Kiarostami, and I thought that this person was sent by God to replace Rey. Thank God. ——Akira Kurosawa (Japan)

Dreams must be rooted in reality. ——Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)

I have repeatedly said that as a filmmaker, if I make a movie, the audience should learn from this movie. Seeing 100 of their own movies, every viewer can see his or her own movie, that's what I strive to do. ——Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)

I prefer movies that make the audience fall asleep in the theater. I think such movies are considerate enough to allow you to take a good nap. You won't be troubled when you leave the theater. There have been movies that made me fall asleep in the theater, but the same movie kept me awake all night, thinking about it until dawn, even for weeks. This is my favorite movie. ——Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)

The dream begins with the script and ends with the movie. ——George Lucas (USA)

Every time he plays a role, the actor must live in that role. ——Konstantin Stanislavsky (Soviet Union)

I leave my footprints for future generations to follow. ——Derek Jarman (UK)

The whole of life, the whole of its actions, is a natural and vivid movie. ——Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy)

We can never predict the outcome of a film. Every film has a narrow door, and we can only use our own judgment to decide whether we should step through it. ——Kristof Kieslowski (Poland)

The best movies are made for the deaf and mute. Human beings are chattering endlessly and words are flooding in, almost drowning in it. Only by watching ballet can we discover pure beauty and pure gesture, and this is what my film strives to express. ——Sergei Parajanov (Armenia)

A movie is a play, it cannot be made into an accidental event. ——Ozu Yasujirō (Japan)

The (avant-garde) method has the following dangers: 1. The author has already concluded and vaguely proposes riddle-like things, just like being asked some questions by a primary school teacher Simple questions that don’t even need to be asked.

2. The author himself completely gave up the desire to draw conclusions, using the excuse that it would be honest to raise issues that he did not understand truthfully, and was satisfied with providing extremely incomplete images at a very low level. This is a self-proclaimed avant-garde film. , there are as many such films as you want. ——Ozu Yasujiro (Japan)

When true and false are mixed, the true highlights the false, but the false prevents us from believing in the true. If an actor, on the deck of a real ship being beaten by real wind and rain, pretends to be afraid of a shipwreck, we will believe neither the actor nor the ship and the storm. ——Robert Bresson (France)

My life experience tells me that abnormal class relations and relationships between people without sympathy are the reality. ——Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)

When an image comes into contact with other images, it must be transformed, just like when one color comes into contact with other colors. Blue placed next to green, yellow, or red is not the same blue. There is no art without transformation. ——Robert Bresson (France)

I am like a radar, I receive things and then reflect them back like a mirror, mixed with memories, dreams and ideas. ——Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)

One of the phenomena when people get older is that childhood memories will emerge more and more clearly, while various major events in their prime will become blurred. , so that it disappears. ——Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)

I want to build a house with my movies. Some were made into cellars, some into walls, others into windows. However, I hope that by the end it will be a house. ——Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany)

When I tell a story very personally, it makes more sense than when I try to tell it in universal terms. More people recognize it. ——Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany)

I do think that good things will definitely not last long. ——Xu Qinhao (South Korea)

I am who I am. If I have to bang my head against the wall to be true to myself, then I will. ——Marlon Brando (USA)

Hollywood is ruled by fear and lust for money. But that does not rule me, because I am fearless and not greedy for money. ——Marlon Brando (USA)

It’s not that I’m afraid of death, it’s just that when death comes, I don’t want to be there. ——Woody Allen (USA)

To defend Korean movies, we may even die! ——Im Kwon-taek (South Korea)

When you are thirteen years old, you think you are already very important to the world, and the world is just ready to forgive you for your naivety. ——Chen Kaige (China)

Don’t wink at me, the performance is not that complicated. ——Laurence Olivier (UK)

Stupidity is infinitely more charming and profound than wisdom. Wisdom has limits, stupidity has none. ——Claude Chabrol (France)

If movies can be used to describe the suffering of the people, it can at least promote social self-policing and let society think about how it should improve itself. ——Sun Yu (China)

A screenwriter and director can’t just put a story on film and be done with it, but he should at least be a writer with a unique style and correct understanding. Publicly owned writers. ——Cai Chusheng (China)

If China will do well, domestic films will also do well. ——Fei Mu (China)

The bomb must not explode. If the bomb does not explode, the audience will always be uneasy. ——Alfred Hitchcock (UK)

The true meaning of acting is to treat life as an experiment, exploring the strangeness, joys and sorrows of life from scene to scene. ——Susan Sarandon (USA)

I have been synchronously recording the process of national evolution. I live in an era of change, and this change requires a director to be very sensitive and synchronous in his judgment. I believe my work will become an iconic group of buildings in China. ——Jia Zhangke (China)

I have all the shortcomings of Chinese directors, such as drama. I love drama. I also grew up reading storytelling and chapter novels, but I know that it is a The shortcoming is that we have simplified reality, turned it into entertainment, and turned it into a legend. ——Jia Zhangke (China)

There is a kind of movie that requires a long time of accumulation, and there is a kind of movie that requires lightning-quick inspiration. ——Jia Zhangke (China)

No matter what theme I use, it is actually a religious theme.

Except their salvation happened on the street, not in the church. ——Martin Scorsese (USA)

I am an independent film director! People always say that my movies look like Hollywood movies, or are just Hollywood movies. But if Hollywood wants to copy me, what can I do? ——George Lucas (USA)

Whether you are a hero or a gangster, remember to make your character human. That is to give him some opposite qualities as much as possible without affecting your character. His main role in the story. ——Don Richardson (USA)

We don’t always reveal our true inner thoughts, we only reveal what we want others to believe to be true. ——Don Richardson (USA)

The only movies I can’t make are Mizoguchi (Kenji)’s “Gion Sisters” and Naruse (Misakio)’s “The Clouds” ——Ozu Yasujirō (Japan)

If I don’t make films for a day, I feel like I have lost a day of life. In this way, filming is like having sex. ——Federico Fellini (Italy)