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"I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"
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"The secret to film is that it's an illusion."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
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"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
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"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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"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on."
Choice
"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."
Music
"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."
Light
"There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make."
Film
"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
Choice
"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."
Sound
"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well."
Work
"Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away."
Mystery
"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
Birthday
"Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling."
Thought
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