Justin Simien Quotes

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

A lot of times, you finish a movie, and you're either going, 'Oh, thank God, that's over,' or 'Oh, my God, it's over, and I don't want it to end.'

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another, and you get to really be so connected with it.

It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.

What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.