Irving Thalberg Quotes

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

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

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Film is a truly magical medium.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.