John Hyams Quotes

• There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

  John Hyams

  World, Saving, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my training I do in between movies, and even if I wasn't an actor I'd be doing it. I started studying martial arts when I was 14, and it's something I still do just to keep sane and feel good about myself.

  John Hyams

  Art, Feel Good, Training

  Source: wegotthiscovered.com

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• I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

  John Hyams

  Forever, Sound, May

  Source: collider.com

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• [W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.

  John Hyams

  Real, Opposites, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films the point of view has been taken into account and established.

  John Hyams

  Taken, Views, Cinema

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• I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

  John Hyams

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

  John Hyams

  Editing, Editors, Long

  Source: collider.com

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