Raymond Chandler Quotes

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

I do believe motion pictures are the significant art form of our time. And I think the main reason is, they're an art form of movement, as opposed to static art forms of previous times.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.