Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.
That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.
Film is a tool of change.
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.
Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.
Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.
I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.
Film as a medium has a power that sports like wrestling lack.
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.
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.
The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster.
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.
A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.
