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Film Quotes
"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
10
"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."
10
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
10
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
10
"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."
10
"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,
10
"What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film."
Film,
10
"I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me."
10
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
10
"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."
10
"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
Film,
10
"I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally."
10
"Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel."
9
"I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years."
9
"I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire."
9
"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."
9
"Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos."
Film,
9
"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."
9
"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."
9
"I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
9
"It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it."
9
"It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines."
Film,
9
"I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation."
9
"Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven."
9
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."
Film,
9
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