Films Quotes
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The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
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Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.
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On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.
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Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.
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I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
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Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.
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I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
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I think all my films have a different journey. Therefore, I take it as it comes.
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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
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There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.
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Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.
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Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.
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Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
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I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.
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I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.
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British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."
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Awards and nominations really help sell films.
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I was in awe of Robert Osborne, the man, and his incredible talent. Like everyone else, I loved watching him introduce classic films on TCM. But I was fortunate to also get to know him in real life by spending time with him and being interviewed by him over the years at events around the country.
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To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
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I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.
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I have no ambition. I am sure that I should, but... I do films when they are proposed. But I never go and look for them.
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The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be there for a good amount of time, and then you can't go and do films and things like that.
