Noel Clarke Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.

  Noel Clarke

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you want." I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like "Stop moaning and write something."

  Noel Clarke

  Teacher, Writing, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

  Noel Clarke

  Girl, Horse, Events

  "Noel Clarke: 'The films that I've written and directed aren't necessarily the kind I like watching'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

• If I'm given the opportunity of writing, directing and acting in the same film I would love to do it again. It's something I don't think that anyone else is doing in the country at this level... not many people are doing it in the world. I think if you check that out and find it's quite accurate, there's only a handful of people that actually are doing it.

  Noel Clarke

  Country, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

  Noel Clarke

  Rights, Together, Credit

  "Interview: Noel Clarke Talks To S&A About ‘Storage 24,’ Entering US Market, UK’s Black Talent Drain, ‘Bad Boys’ UK & More…" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2012.

• It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film Adulthood that said it. I don't remember speaking to my elders like that, because you never remember... actually our generation was quite bad because everyone else always seems worse.

  Noel Clarke

  Character, Remember, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, Important, Stuff

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

  Noel Clarke

  Community, Different, Culture

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, Support, Film

• As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.

  Noel Clarke

  Mistake, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

  Noel Clarke

  Mind, Watches, Fiction

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last 10 years, and in the top 10, three of the films were my films. I've always been a glass-is-half-full person. I've always gone, "If people aren't going to do it, I'm going to do it".

  Noel Clarke

  People, Study, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think now you see a lot more British films from the perspective of, I guess what would be considered "new" British people - people of color, Asian people. I think that's what's happening now, whereas 20 years ago it couldn't happen because it was still predominantly, "British film is about middle-class white families and what they do."

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What I want to do is make things that I think people want to watch. I'm a film fan, so I think I'm in touch with other film fans and that they might want to watch stuff. The other reason I really don't care is because no matter what you do in life, no matter what you wear, or what you say, people are going to like it or they're not. And that is all. Everything, down to the socks I chose today - people are going to like them or they're not and there's nothing you can do about that.

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, People, Care

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