Film Quotes
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If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.
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I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.
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If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.
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Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.
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Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.
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I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
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Something was being applied to the ball quite obviously and he must have known it. It's quite conclusive on film.
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I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.
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I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.
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That's another great thing about Think Like a Man picture. The cast is predominantly African-American, but color is never really an issue in the film. It's rarely brought up since, at the end of the day, these guys are going through universal relationship issues that anybody can relate to. So, while the characters like "The non-committer," "The Player," and "The Dreamer" might be recognizable as common stereotypes, color isn't involved.
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I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
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It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.
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Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
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If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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Film is a collective experience, as you know.
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I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
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Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.
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Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.
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We didn't know he'd be back this week, but we had seen him on film and expected him to be back.
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I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.
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A lot of feature films do two pages a day.
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Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.
