Film Quotes
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Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
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At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.
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The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
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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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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile in "Cars". That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?
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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
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There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three years of your life to it. And so, I just have to be sure that when I embark on it that I'm happy to think that in three years' time I'm going to be sitting in a room on the tenth floor of an odd office building at Ginsberg Libby talking about it. So I'm keen not to jump into it too quickly and just make sure it's something that I really want.
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You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.
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A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
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I'm anxious to make another film.
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John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
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We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
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The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
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What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
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The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.
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As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.
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By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
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And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.
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You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
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Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.
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I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.
