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Mel Smith

"In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Donna Grant

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Donna Grant

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

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Donna Grant

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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Donna Grant

"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."

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Donna Grant

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."

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Mel Smith
"But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director."

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Mel Smith
"In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done."

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Mel Smith
"I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director."

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Mel Smith
"I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here."

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