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Film Quotes
"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
3
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
3
"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."
3
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
3
"Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them."
3
"In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it."
3
"The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth."
Film,
3
"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
Film,
3
"I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not."
3
"What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film."
Film,
3
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
3
"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."
3
"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
3
"That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game."
3
"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."
3
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
3
"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."
2
"I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying."
2
"I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film."
2
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
2
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
2
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
2
"The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television."
2
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
2
"But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me."
2
"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
2
"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
2
"My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye."
2
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