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Film Quotes
"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
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"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."
49
"I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde."
Film,
49
"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."
49
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
49
"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."
49
"The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting."
49
"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,
49
"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."
49
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
49
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
48
"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film."
48
"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."
48
"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,
48
"I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well."
48
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
48
"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."
48
"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
Film,
48
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
48
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
47
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
47
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
47
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
47
"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
47
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
47
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
47
"I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders."
47
"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
Film,
47
"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
47
"What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film."
Film,
47
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