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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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's 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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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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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 was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.
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Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
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I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.
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When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.
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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.
