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Film Quotes
"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."
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"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them."
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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
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"What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film."
Film,
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"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
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"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."
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"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
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"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"
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"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film."
35
"I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there."
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"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,
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"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
Film,
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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film,
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"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
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"One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2."
Film,
35
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
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"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
Film,
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"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."
34
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
34
"Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series."
34
"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
Film,
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"I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape."
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"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
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"I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason."
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"I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation."
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