Film Quotes
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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 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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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
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A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
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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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I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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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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Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
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I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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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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The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.
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When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
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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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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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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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Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
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When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.
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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.
