Taylor Hackford Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Film has to describe and show.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
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Like so many children who read a lot, I begin to declare rather early that I want to be a writer. But this is the only way I have of articulating a different desire, a desire that I can’t yet understand. What I really want is to be transported into a space in which everything is as distinct, complete, and intelligible as in the stories I read. And, like most children, I’m a literalist through and through. I want reality to imitate books – and books to capture the essence of reality. I love words insofar as they correspond to the world, insofar as they give it to me in a heightened form. The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become – and such lucidity is a form of joy. Sometimes, when I find a new expression, I roll it on the tongue, as if shaping it in my mouth gave birth to a new shape in the world. Nothing fully exists until it is articulated.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
