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Film Quotes
"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."
Film,
10
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
10
"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."
10
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
10
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
10
"There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making."
10
"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
10
"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."
Film,
10
"No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film."
Film,
10
"It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach."
10
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
10
"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
10
"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,
10
"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
10
"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
10
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
10
"There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film."
9
"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."
9
"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
9
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
Film,
9
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
9
"I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there."
Film,
9
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
9
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
9
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
9
"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
9
"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."
Film,
9
"Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay."
9
"And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie."
Film,
9
"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,
9
"I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty."
Film,
9
"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece."
9
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
9
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
9
"Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film."
9
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