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Film Quotes
"I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium."
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"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
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"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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"My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye."
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"In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit."
34
"When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused."
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"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
Film,
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"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."
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"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
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"I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not."
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"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no."
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"I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally."
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"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive."
Film,
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
Film,
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"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
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"Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody."
32
"Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them."
32
"Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them."
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"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."
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"I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar."
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"Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands."
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