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Film Quotes
"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire."
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"I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason."
42
"Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven."
42
"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."
42
"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."
42
"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2."
Film,
42
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
41
"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,
41
"Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay."
41
"I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set."
41
"What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case."
41
"I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty."
Film,
41
"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film,
41
"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!"
41
"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."
41
"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
41
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
Film,
41
"I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable."
Film,
41
"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
41
"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
41
"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
Film,
41
"I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist."
41
"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
Film,
40
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
40
"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."
40
"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."
Film,
40
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