Guy Pearce Quotes

Not all films are going to go down in history.

I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

In my case I want my films to be fresh even after a decade of watching it.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever.

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity.

I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know which ones those are. And you've just got to go for the opportunities of films you think might be memorable.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.

I just hope that my films will survive me.