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Film Quotes
"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."
26
"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."
25
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
25
"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
25
"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,
25
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
25
"Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way."
25
"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper."
24
"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."
24
"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
Film,
24
"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."
24
"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."
Film,
24
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
24
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
24
"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."
24
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
24
"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,
23
"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
23
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film,
23
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
23
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
23
"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
23
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
Film,
23
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
23
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
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