Eddie Campbell Quotes

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I try not to look for messages in films.

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

I don't think 'Lootera' is slow paced; it's finely paced for its setting and story.

I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.