Thomas Langmann Quotes

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

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

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.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

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.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

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

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

I've often been accused of, 'Oh the movies looked good but there's no story,' but I disagree with that in theory, and '9' is a perfect example for me because the feel, the texture, and the look of that world, and those characters, is the story. That's a major component of why you feel the way you do when you're watching it.

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.

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

Every film is a journey.

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.