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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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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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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I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
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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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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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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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Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.
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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.
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Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
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There is something fucking unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them..
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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
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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.
