Film Quotes
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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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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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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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 big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.
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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.
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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 had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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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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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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Film is anti-language.
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All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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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 think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
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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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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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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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Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.
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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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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
