Cinematic Immortality Quotes

I just hope that my films will survive me.

I don't want to be part of films that are easily forgotten.

There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of permanent - inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out of the cinema having really laughed at this film which had been made 50 years before, I thought: That's immortality. It's fantastic.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

Cult films last forever. I have been in plenty of films that no one will remember, so it is nice to be in some movies that some people do, and that they pass it along to the next generation I'm meeting kids named Ash now.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Not all films are going to go down in history.

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever.