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.
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Film has to describe and show.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Film is anti-language.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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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.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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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.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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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.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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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.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at the swipe of a finger. To get folks out of their homes for a piece of art or entertainment, I think you need to offer something they can't get on Netflix or Amazon.
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I wanted to know how Jackie felt about [John F. Kennedy], and I got to know Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Bunny and her were buddies. I asked, "How do you know what Jackie knew?" And Bunny said, "She told me."... Jackie called him "Magic." Bunny said she just picked her man. That was it. This was the guy she loved.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.
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The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.
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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.
