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Film Quotes
"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2."
Film,
4
"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,
4
"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."
Film,
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
3
"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,
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
3
"I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years."
3
"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."
3
"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive."
Film,
3
"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."
3
"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
Film,
3
"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
3
"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."
3
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
3
"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
3
"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."
3
"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula."
3
"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
3
"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."
3
"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."
3
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
3
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