Film Quotes
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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 consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.
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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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We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
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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 think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.
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Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.
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I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
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Making films is like making stuff together as kids.
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To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.
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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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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.
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I've always loved Elsa Dorfman work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.
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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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Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.
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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
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When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.
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I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
