Films Quotes
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Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
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Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.
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Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.
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Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
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I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
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The problem with working with a record label is they maybe a song I want to make a video for that they will refuse to make a video for because they don't see that song as a single. And I found that very frustrating. I realised what I was doing was making these short films for the blind. They were films and all you had to do was put some headphones on and close your eyes and listen to my voice and you'd be able to visualise the images that I'm putting into your brain. And so I started calling what I was doing 'films for the blind'.
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I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.
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For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.
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Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
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When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
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My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
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Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
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I forayed into films in 1974, and I was done with college in 1975.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.
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If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.
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I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
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I've seen all of my mom's films. She's the reason why I do almost anything.
