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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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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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 name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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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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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
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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.
