Film Quotes
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
Stephen Fry -
I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, that there's a lot of that, especially with documentaries.
Alex Stapleton
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My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. When I'm carrying out a performance, it matters, for example, how long I hold one particular gesture or posture. Seriality is very important too. Performance can be used to dilate time or to repeat time. And video, in turn, has its own time.
Valie Export -
I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.
George Clooney -
I love working with film, whether it's the technical side, the acting side, or the musical side.
Peter Frampton -
A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
William H. Macy -
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.
Luc Besson -
The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the box office during more than one month and that Mexicans are taking into consideration that Mexican films can be enjoyed with the family, instead of going to see Transformers and that our films looks like something that are necessary to support.
Alfonso Herrera
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I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.
Christopher Doyle -
I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.
David O. Russell -
Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented.
Albert Serra -
If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.
Elia Kazan -
Film is where I want to end up, but I don't want to let go of theatre.
Viva Bianca -
Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.
Christian Metz
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Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
Helen McCrory -
I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.
Darren Shahlavi -
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
Elvis Costello -
I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
Errol Flynn -
I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
Moon Bloodgood -
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
Arin Paul
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When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.
Christopher Meledandri -
One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.
Amy Ziering -
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.
Paul Auster -
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
William Friedkin