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Film Quotes
"I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me."
8
"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,
8
"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."
8
"I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer."
8
"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
Film,
8
"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."
8
"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."
7
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
7
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
7
"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
7
"I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years."
7
"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
Film,
7
"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
Film,
7
"Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos."
Film,
7
"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."
7
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film,
7
"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."
7
"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,
7
"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."
7
"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."
7
"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."
7
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film,
7
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
7
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
7
"I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special."
Film,
7
"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
7
"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
7
"I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."
7
"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
7
"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
7
"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,
7
"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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