Chris Milk Quotes

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

Cinema is movement, after all.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Cinema is an art form.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?

I think, culturally, stories are important, whether it be cinema, whether it be by word of mouth - which I don't even know if we do anymore, as it all seems to be social media.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Cinema is like dream.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.