Jodie Comer Quotes

I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught us how the camera was placed in the centre of the action.

Fanny and Alexander' blew me away. I was visiting my sister in her first year at university. It was my first foray into something dark.

Movies have only fascinated me; they've cultivated me, made me the person I am today.

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why I'm an actress.

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.

My life is cinematic in some ways.

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.