Film Quotes
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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Through the history of my records, from when I started controlling the visual, I always used lower case letters for everything, I can't even explain why that is. The character is actually me, and I think once you see the film for the record, or see the video or really get in to the record, that will all sort of reveal itself to you.
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.
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Film is anti-language.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
