Film Quotes
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You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I would love to go to film school.
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Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.
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For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful 'Bramhotsavam' will be that film.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
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The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
