Film Quotes
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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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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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
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I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
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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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In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.
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Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film Valerian four days before the end.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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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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I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
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The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
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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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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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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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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
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'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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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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Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he Quentin Tarantino is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously Quentin is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film Hateful Eight goes to the director of photography.
