Orson Welles Quotes
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
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Film has to describe and show.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
