Bryan Singer Quotes

I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

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.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

No film should be meaningless.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

I am trying to do films that stay with me for some time. 'Banaras' stays with me.

I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

We have to create images that remain in people's memory because a film is judged by what they have already seen. You are trying to create an image that is unique and you have to employ all the resources available to you.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.