Steven Ford Quotes

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

Such films that the audiences remembers 10-15 years after they released come by rarely.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I feel old films should not be remade.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

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.

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's a movie you love, and then you revisit it twenty years later, you show your kid or something, and it's like, 'Oh my God!' with hairstyles and clothing and all that kind of stuff.

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

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

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

I want to make timeless movies.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.