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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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 time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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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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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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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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I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
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We live in a nation where corporations are people.
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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.
