Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes
I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Film has to describe and show.
-
Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
-
Film is anti-language.
-
I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
-
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
-
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.
-
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
-
My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
-
I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
-
I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
-
I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
-
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
-
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
-
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
-
When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
-
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
-
I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
-
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
-
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
-
I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.
-
I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic.
-
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.
-
I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.
