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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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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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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When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.
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There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
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Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.
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...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).
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Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.
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There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
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There hasn't been an original voice in stand-up since Sam Kinison.
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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.
