The Red Shoes

“One of my favorite movies is The Red Shoes. It's beautiful. I like beauty, and I like tragedy. I like to cry and be moved by what happens to the characters.”

Brian De Palma

Director

“There's no other picture that dramatizes and visualizes the overwhelming obsession of art, the way it can take over your life. On a deeper level, in the movement and energy of the filmmaking itself, is a deep and abiding love of art, a belief in art as a genuinely transcendent state.”

Martin Scorsese

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

“Francis Ford Coppola showed me The Red Shoes for the first time and I was engulfed in the film and loving it.”

Elle Fanning

Actor

“It was Martin Scorsese that told me to see it for the first time and I did. So there's a story. Selecting it as one of his all-time favorites.”

Andrew Garfield

Actor

“I have such fond memories of this film. I have a dance background, ballet background, and the metaphor in the movie—the passion for the craft and the art, and how it can drive you insane or to desperate lengths.”

Nathalie Emmanuel

Actor

“Red Shoes is a parable of the passion of the arts destroying us all.”

Guillermo del Toro

Director, Producer, Writer

“No movie reminds me of my life more than the red shoes - this was my mother's favorite movie ever made, it was the first time that I saw that a movie could be nutritional value to someone.”

Jason Schwartzman

Actor

“It's one of like the weirder darker films that I've seen captured on Technicolor.”

Hari Nef

Actor

“Maybe if I had to pick one film above all films it would be The Red Shoes.”

Joanna Hogg

Director