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Film Quotes
"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
53
"I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me."
53
"The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move."
52
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
Film,
52
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
52
"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
52
"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
52
"For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated."
Film,
52
"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
51
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
51
"I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through."
51
"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
51
"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
Film,
51
"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
Film,
51
"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
Film,
51
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
51
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
51
"I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways."
Film,
51
"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down."
51
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
51
"It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle."
51
"I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman."
Film,
50
"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!"
50
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film,
50
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
50
"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
50
"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."
50
"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
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