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Film Quotes
"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"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."
44
"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
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"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."
44
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
44
"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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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
44
"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,
44
"I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding."
44
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
44
"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."
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"If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know."
43
"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."
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"Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology."
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"I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film."
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"One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well."
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"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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"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."
43
"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
43
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
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"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
43
"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
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"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."
42
"I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there."
Film,
42
"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula."
42
"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."
42
"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
42
"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
Film,
42
"It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines."
Film,
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