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Film Quotes
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
38
"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,
38
"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."
38
"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."
37
"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."
37
"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
Film,
37
"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,
37
"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,
37
"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."
37
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
37
"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."
37
"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
37
"You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level."
Film,
37
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
37
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
37
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
37
"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
37
"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
37
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
Film,
37
"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,
37
"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."
36
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
Film,
36
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
36
"I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went."
36
"This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film."
Film,
36
"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."
36
"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
36
"We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film."
36
"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat."
36
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
36
"I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited."
Film,
36
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