top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."
Standard
Customized
More
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."
Film
"I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on."
Work
"There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music."
Music
"But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day."
Time
"Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?"
Music
"I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things."
Art
"I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else."
Music
"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
Jazz
"I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else."
Reading
"It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful."
Music
bottom of page