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Film Quotes

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made Picture Quote #1

That’s the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film Picture Quote #1

Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film Picture Quote #1

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that’s what my ultimate dream is Picture Quote #1

To me if there’s an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it’s because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting Picture Quote #1

Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph Picture Quote #1

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Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them Picture Quote #1

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture Picture Quote #1

Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club Picture Quote #1

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual Picture Quote #1

I’m a relatively ugly character who’s done pretty damn well in film Picture Quote #1

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids Picture Quote #1

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Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people Picture Quote #1

My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it Picture Quote #1

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits Picture Quote #1

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I’ve heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film Picture Quote #1

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain Picture Quote #1

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script Picture Quote #1

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A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema Picture Quote #1

Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose Picture Quote #1

A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you’ve got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn’t work that way. Ideally, it’s insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you’re very lucky Picture Quote #1

I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don’t try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show Picture Quote #1

It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design Picture Quote #1

I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together Picture Quote #1

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When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn’t really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media Picture Quote #1

What a thrill. You know you’ve entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film Picture Quote #1

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they’re not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I’ve always had that awareness and that’s something that I’ve wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked Picture Quote #1

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success Picture Quote #1

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard Picture Quote #1

Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking Picture Quote #1

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Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made (Film Quotes) That’s the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film (Film Quotes) Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film (Film Quotes) I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that’s what my ultimate dream is (Film Quotes) To me if there’s an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it’s because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting (Film Quotes) Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph (Film Quotes) Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them (Film Quotes) When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture (Film Quotes) Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club (Film Quotes) I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual (Film Quotes) I’m a relatively ugly character who’s done pretty damn well in film (Film Quotes) I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids (Film Quotes) Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people (Film Quotes) My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it (Film Quotes) Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits (Film Quotes) Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I’ve heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film (Film Quotes) Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly does nothing to rob the words of their power. A film presents images; a book creates images inside the reader, with the reader’s active participation. Books are good for your brain (Film Quotes) With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script (Film Quotes) A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema (Film Quotes) Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose (Film Quotes) A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you’ve got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn’t work that way. Ideally, it’s insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you’re very lucky (Film Quotes) I think I have an obligation, to the people who have consented to be in the film, to make a film that is fair to their experience. The editing of my films is a long and selective process. I do feel that when I cut a sequence, I have an obligation to the people who are in it, to cut it so that it fairly represents what I felt was going on at the time, in the original event. I don’t try and cut it to meet the standards of a producer or a network or a television show (Film Quotes) It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design (Film Quotes) I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together (Film Quotes) When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn’t really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media (Film Quotes) What a thrill. You know you’ve entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film (Film Quotes) A lot of actors on film sets... very often they’re not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I’ve always had that awareness and that’s something that I’ve wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked (Film Quotes) At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success (Film Quotes) So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard (Film Quotes) Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking (Film Quotes)

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