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I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special.
Author:
Terry Zwigoff
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It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
Author:
Terry Zwigoff
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We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
Author:
Ziyi Zhang
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In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
Author:
Abraham Zapruder
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Film, I think, is my medium.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!
Author:
Rick Yune
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I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
Author:
Donnie Yen
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
Author:
Ed Wood
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The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.
Author:
Alex Winter
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But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.
Author:
Dianne Wiest
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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Author:
Minor White
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Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
Author:
Peter Weir
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
Author:
Weegee
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I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.
Author:
Shawn Wayans
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I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Author:
Larry Wachowski
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I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
Author:
Jim Varney
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I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
Author:
Agnes Varda
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Author:
Jack Valenti
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You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
Author:
Roger Vadim
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That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.
Author:
Cicely Tyson
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I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.
Author:
Robin Tunney
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Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
Author:
Francois Truffaut
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
Author:
Rachel True
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
Author:
Verne Troyer
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It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.
Author:
Jean-Louis Trintignant
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
Author:
Lars Trier
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I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.
Author:
Thuy Trang
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It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
Author:
Robert Towne
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
Author:
J. Thompson
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I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
Author:
Julie Taymor
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I never had a great role in a great film.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
Author:
Sherry Stringfield
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I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.
Author:
David strathairn
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In any film there's always a historical implication.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.
Author:
Mink Stole
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John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
Author:
Mink Stole
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There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Author:
Barbara Steele
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Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
Author:
Terence Stamp
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It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.
Author:
Robert Stack
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Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.
Author:
Roger Spottiswoode
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I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.
Author:
Terry Southern
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I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.
Author:
Shannyn Sossamon
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Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.
Author:
Michael Smith
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I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.
Author:
Michael Smith
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In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
Author:
Mel Smith
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We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
Author:
Kurtwood Smith
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I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
Author:
Christian Slater
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What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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The studio should not have released this film.
Author:
Joel Siegel
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I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
Author:
Harry Shearer
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I think making a good film shot is joyful.
Author:
William Shatner
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
Author:
David Selby
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And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.
Author:
Sean Scott
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My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.
Author:
John Schlesinger
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I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
Author:
John Schlesinger
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I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.
Author:
Vincent Schiavelli
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I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
Author:
Vincent Schiavelli
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You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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I guess I'm growing up in the film world.
Author:
Devon Sawa
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For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.
Author:
Devon Sawa
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Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.
Author:
Graeme Saux
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Author:
Walter Salles
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Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
Author:
Eriq Salle
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You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.
Author:
Winona Ryder
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I die in almost every film I've been in.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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I'm me, I live from film to mouth.
Author:
Alan Rudolph
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You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.
Author:
Alan Rudolph
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But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.
Author:
Brandon Routh
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One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
Author:
Brandon Routh
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You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.
Author:
Brandon Routh
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
Author:
George Romero
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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
Author:
George Romero
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Well, we run my ship differently. Any offer that comes in, I yay or nay it, no matter how insane it is. Like, if someone asks me if I'm interested in doing a porn film, the answer to that is going to be no, but it comes to me anyway. I'm responsible for making the call.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.
Author:
Mark Roberts
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I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.
Author:
Jay Roach
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It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
Author:
Jay Roach
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When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.
Author:
Jay Roach
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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
Author:
Jacques Rivette
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Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.
Author:
Giovanni Ribisi
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I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
Author:
Alain Resnais
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
Author:
Alain Resnais
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I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
Author:
Robert Redford
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Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.
Author:
Satyajit Ray
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I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.
Author:
Dileep Rao
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A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.
Author:
David Prowse
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Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
Author:
Mark Poster
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You are not an active creator of the film.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
Author:
Roman Polanski
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It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
Author:
Michael Pitt
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My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.
Author:
Ryan Phillippe
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What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.
Author:
Piper Perabo
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
Author:
Barry Pepper
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I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
Author:
Robin Penn
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We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.
Author:
Cynthia Payne
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Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
Author:
Christopher Parker
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
Author:
Alan Parker
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Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
Author:
Brian Palma
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Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
Author:
Major Owens
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I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.
Author:
Miranda Otto
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We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!
Author:
Mary-Kate Olsen
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My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.
Author:
Phillip Noyce
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Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.
Author:
Phillip Noyce
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When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
Author:
Nick Nolte
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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
Author:
Nick Nolte
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You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
Author:
Nick Nolte
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The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.
Author:
Pola Negri
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I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.
Author:
David Naughton
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I'm not a big slasher film fan.
Author:
David Naughton
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I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
Author:
Mira Nair
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
Author:
Parminder Nagra
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
Author:
Eddie Murphy
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
Author:
Cillian Murphy
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Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
Author:
Bill Mumy
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Film is a very intimate medium.
Author:
David Morse
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You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.
Author:
David Morse
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
Author:
Estelle Morris
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I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
Author:
Kenneth More
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Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
Author:
Rick Moranis
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Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit.
Author:
Julianne Moore
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Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.
Author:
Ron Moody
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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
Author:
Matthew Modine
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I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.
Author:
Hayao Miyazaki
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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Radha Mitchell
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All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
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Helen Mirren
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This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
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Wentworth Miller
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I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.
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John Milius
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There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.
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Maria Menounos
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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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Norman McLaren
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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
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Norman McLaren
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Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
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Norman McLaren
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
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Norman McLaren
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Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.
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Norman McLaren
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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Samantha Mathis
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When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
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Sophie Marceau
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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Patrick Marber
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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Patrick Marber
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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Patrick Marber
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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Patrick Marber
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For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated.
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Josie Maran
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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David Mamet
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I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
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John Malkovich
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
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Mako
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In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.
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Tobey Maguire
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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William Macy
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We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
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Ann Macbeth
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Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
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Ann Macbeth
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I am a film buff.
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Carol Lynley
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I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
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David Lynch
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The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
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Patti LuPone
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Bela Lugosi
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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.
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George Lucas
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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
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George Lucas
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
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Chad Lowe
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Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.
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Nia Long
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I think I can try the film world out for a while.
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Kristanna Loken
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Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
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Donal Logue
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I want to make a film about a factory worker.
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Richard Linklater
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I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
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Richard Linklater
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Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
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Richard Linklater
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I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
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Jenifer Lewis
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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Daniel Lewis
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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Daniel Lewis
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I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
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Joshua Leonard
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We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
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Joshua Leonard
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We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.
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Thomas Lennon
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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
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Sean Lennon
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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
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Michel Legrand
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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Patrice Leconte
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If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
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Dino Laurentiis
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When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
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Sanaa Lathan
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The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
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Brooke Langton
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I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
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Shia LaBeouf
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And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
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Shia LaBeouf
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I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Emir Kusturica
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I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.
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Akshay Kumar
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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
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Stanley Kubrick
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Ted Kotcheff
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I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.
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Shirley Knight
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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Ben Kingsley
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There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
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Ben Kingsley
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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Ben Kingsley
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I did not go to film school.
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Richard King
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In this way, some film schools can be destructive.
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Richard King
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It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.
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Howard Keel
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In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
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Charles Keating
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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
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Philip Kaufman
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This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
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Philip Kaufman
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In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.
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Mathieu Kassovitz
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Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.
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Anil Kapoor
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I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
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Paul Kane
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
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Neil Jordan
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I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
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Neil Jordan
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There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
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Neil Jordan
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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Angelina Jolie
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
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Roland Joffe
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And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Norman Jewison
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When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
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Norman Jewison
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Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
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Norman Jewison
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I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
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Norman Jewison
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I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
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Jim Jarmusch
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What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
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Jim Jarmusch
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To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.
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Thomas Jane
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I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
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Chrissie Hynde
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
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John Hurt
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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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John Hurt
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To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
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Dennis Hopper
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I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.
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Stephen Hopkins
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There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.
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Stephen Hopkins
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I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
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Tobe Hooper
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You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.
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Tobe Hooper
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And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
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Dustin Hoffman
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
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Alice Hoffman
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.
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Dwayne Hickman
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I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
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Jennifer Hewitt
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I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
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Skitch Henderson
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I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
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Tippi Hedren
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Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.
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Lee Hazlewood
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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Salma Hayek
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Salma Hayek
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Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
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Trip Hawkins
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It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
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Josh Hartnett
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Ian Hart
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Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
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Ray Harryhausen
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Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
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Thomas Harrison
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I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.
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Julie Harris
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I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
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Julie Harris
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I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.
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Julie Harris
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John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
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Julie Harris
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I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
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Renny Harlin
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At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film.
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Renny Harlin
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It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.
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Renny Harlin
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Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
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Lawrence Halprin
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I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.
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Conrad Hall
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That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.
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Conrad Hall
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The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
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Conrad Hall
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Taylor Hackford
