Walter C. Pfister, ASC (Wally Pfister) Quotes
Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as much information out there as they can and sometimes it can be very damaging to the films to have the stories leaked or certain plot details. I think it's important to have something remain secretive for the audience and something special for the audience so there aren't spoilers all over the internet.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You`ve got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government`s spirit, not what you`re just attacking people`s credibility.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as much information out there as they can and sometimes it can be very damaging to the films to have the stories leaked or certain plot details. I think it's important to have something remain secretive for the audience and something special for the audience so there aren't spoilers all over the internet.
