Miguel Sapochnik Quotes
One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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Silence is my dignity.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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Everything must change, everything must move forward.
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.
