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Film Quotes
"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
2
"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."
2
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
2
"Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven."
2
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
2
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
2
"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."
2
"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."
2
"I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium."
2
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
2
"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."
2
"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
2
"John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up."
2
"I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me."
2
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
Film,
2
"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."
2
"It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made."
2
"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!"
2
"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
Film,
2
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
2
"Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film."
Film,
2
"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
2
"To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name."
1
"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."
1
"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
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