Film Quotes
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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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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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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.
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I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
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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'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
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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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I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
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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 had wanted to make this film Suffragette for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
