Catherine Breillat Quotes

Be what we make, and not who we are.

Catherine Breillat

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• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • American
  • Effort
  • Filmmaking

• Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Together
  • Filmmaking

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • Most
  • Filmmaking
  • Narrative

• I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Ifs

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Directors

• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Walking
  • Directors

• Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • American
  • Law
  • Directors

• If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Music
  • Nature

• Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Film

• I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cutting
  • Directors
  • Minutes

• As long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we add a little? Can you tweak it like this? Can you make it more high pitched? Can you give it a little growl?"

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Great
  • Long
  • High

• I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Unknown

• I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • People
  • Experience
  • Voice

• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  

  George Clooney
  • Movie
  • Directors
  • Scripts

• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Kind

• There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • World
  • Today
  • Stop

• Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Desire

• Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea.

  

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
  • People
  • World
  • Health

• Be what we make, and not who we are.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Directors
  • Filmmaking