Nicholas Jarecki Quotes
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
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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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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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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
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Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.
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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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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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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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There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.
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A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.
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I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.
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Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.
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What we need today are not more laws to govern believers. What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us!
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Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
