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Film Quotes
"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."
Film,
9
"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."
9
"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
Film,
9
"I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not."
9
"The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film."
9
"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
9
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
9
"Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film."
Film,
9
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
8
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
8
"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,
8
"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."
8
"This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film."
Film,
8
"If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."
8
"What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case."
8
"I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special."
Film,
8
"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."
Film,
8
"We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film."
8
"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."
8
"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
8
"The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles."
8
"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
Film,
8
"I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding."
8
"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
Film,
8
"Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore."
Film,
8
"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."
7
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