Michael Keaton Quotes

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

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 can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's a form; 'Duch, Master of the Gates of Hell' is a different proposal.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

Movies are too literal.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.