Film Quotes
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
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Why should I go to the States to do a film I wouldn't consider in Europe, just because it's English-speaking?
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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
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It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.
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Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.
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My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
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Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
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It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
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This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
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Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!
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Every film starts with the script.
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Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
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I still enjoy watching films more than making them.
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I loved watching theatre, and film, and television. It was a fantastic outlet and my favourite thing to do. I can't remember the decision. It just felt like a completely natural thing... I just completely felt drawn into it and seduced by it all. I found myself going into it.
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Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.
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If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
