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Film Quotes
"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
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"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."
30
"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."
30
"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."
30
"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."
30
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film,
29
"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
Film,
29
"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
Film,
29
"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
29
"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."
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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
29
"Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat."
29
"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."
Film,
29
"Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult."
29
"This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there."
29
"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
29
"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
29
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
28
"In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit."
28
"Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody."
28
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
28
"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
28
"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
28
"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."
Film,
28
"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."
Film,
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