Film Quotes
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Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
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Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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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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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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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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I agree with him 100 percent. Watching film everybody is making minor mistakes and I just think being half a step earlier, or being one step over the left or one step over to the right could change the whole outlook of the play as far as the other team getting an easy bucket or a wide open look.
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It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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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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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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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
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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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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
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I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.
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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.
