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Film Quotes
"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
15
"Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways."
15
"Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way."
15
"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
15
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
15
"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2."
Film,
15
"I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist."
15
"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."
14
"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."
14
"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position."
14
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
14
"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
14
"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,
14
"I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way."
14
"What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing."
Film,
14
"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
14
"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,
14
"It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller."
14
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
14
"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."
14
"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."
14
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
14
"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
14
"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."
Film,
14
"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down."
14
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
14
"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
Film,
14
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
14
"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."
14
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
14
"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,
14
"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
14
"John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up."
14
"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
Film,
14
"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
14
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