Francis Alys Quotes
Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.
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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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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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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
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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.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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It's all about racing on the track.
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I don't really know much about cars.
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There's backlash about everything I do.
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Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.
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The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
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The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
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Impact on consumer spending and production broadly will be modest.
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A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
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Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.
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I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.
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As we went into production, there was no song for Olivia and no idea where we would put it. It was not even on the production schedule.
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Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.
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There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.
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My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.
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Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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The last time I flew with him was a year ago, and I definitely did not see the kind of person who took unnecessary risks.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.
