Film Quotes
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There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.
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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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Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
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I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I had experienced this myself, I wanted to make a really physical and carnal film.
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If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.
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The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.
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I know that there are police that are trying hard to do the right thing, and the film is also abouth the way that the police are treated by the state.
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I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.
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You know, it's not my film Valerian, it's really their film. It's very strange. And maybe because it's more when you comes to the Marvel films it's way much more organized and plan, you know, they planned. Okay, we have Thor here, we have this and then we do The Avengers, and then we group. You know, it's much more organized. So maybe there is a little less freedom at the end for the creative people. Where I did the entire opposite. I let them help me, you know. So that's also why maybe they were so involved.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
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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 can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
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Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
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At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it.
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The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.
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I was 12 and I remember everything. I mean, I had done two films before that. The first was actually with Amy Heckerling. It was so brilliant to work with her on my first film. Atonement was the third one I'd done, and I remember how it felt to arrive on set every day. I remember how it felt to get my wig off at the end of the day. I remember how hot it was.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.
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I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.
