Yasujirō Ozu Quotes
I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used such editing techniques again. In fact, neither dissolve, fade-in nor fade-out can be regarded as 'the grammar of film,' they are no more than characteristics of the camera.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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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.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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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 co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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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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I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
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There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used such editing techniques again. In fact, neither dissolve, fade-in nor fade-out can be regarded as 'the grammar of film,' they are no more than characteristics of the camera.
