Nick Park (Nicholas Wulstan Park) Quotes

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Nick Park

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• If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• Low budget movies make lots of money.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Budget

• With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • You
  • Camera

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Film
  • Cinema
  • Editing

• Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Film
  • Tiger
  • Original

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Literature

• In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Alone
  • Always
  • Camera

• 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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Film
  • Movies

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Film
  • Weird
  • First

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Film
  • Voice
  • Own

• The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Pressure
  • Walk
  • Camera

• The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Lies

• I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Film
  • Ego

• Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Moving
  • Film

• It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Power
  • True
  • Writer

• Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Career
  • Point
  • Turning Point

• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Work
  • Never
  • Moving On

• Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

  

  Nick Park
  • Film
  • Camera
  • Budget