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Film Quotes
"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
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"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,
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"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."
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"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
33
"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean."
Film,
33
"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."
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"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
33
"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire."
33
"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."
33
"I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much."
Film,
33
"Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way."
33
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
33
"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."
33
"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."
33
"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."
33
"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,
32
"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,
32
"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
32
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
32
"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."
32
"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."
32
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
32
"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."
32
"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
Film,
32
"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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"Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever."
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