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.Miguel Sapochnik
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen -
I'm a believer in trusting the director.
B. J. Novak -
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
Lana Wachowski -
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
Park Chan-wook
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Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani -
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann -
I know everything about Michael Jordan.
Zach LaVine -
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner -
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.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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.
Octavia E. Butler -
Everything must change, everything must move forward.
Pat Benatar -
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.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis -
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
Paloma Faith
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The price of seeing is silence.
Marge Piercy -
Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.
Colin Farrell -
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
Meir Kahane -
People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.
Barack Obama -
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.
Miguel Sapochnik