Angelina Jolie Quotes

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

Somebody has to make good artistic films. Somebody has to break open the doors so that others also will follow and make good and meaningful films.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in them. It's more about the message, for me. That's what it is, and I'm using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.