Film Quotes - Page 27

• I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

  Tinie Tempah

  Character, Italian, Elephants

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

  David Yates

  Drama, Hollywood Films, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

  Michael Apted

  Avid, Quality, Tape

  "Michael Apted Goes from “7 Up” to 007". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 1999.

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• A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

  Kim Jong Il

  Emotional, Plot, Response

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Stars, Thinking, Want

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• Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

  Annie Baker

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  Annie Baker (2014). “The Flick”, p.140, Theatre Communications Group

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• For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Interesting, Fans, Film And Television

  "Portlandia Brings Out The Fan in Carrie Brownstein" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

  Christopher Hampton

  Thinking, Kind, Dramatic

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• I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Boston, Acting, Program

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• A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

  John Lasseter

  Joy, Different, Animation

  Amid Amidi, John Lasseter (2009). “The Art of Pixar Short Films”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• I’ve always thought that if comics are a part of pop culture [then] they should reflect pop culture, but a lot of the time comics, superhero comics especially, just feed on themselves. For me, comics should take from every bit of pop culture that they can; they’ve got the same DNA as music and film and TV and fashion and all of these things.

  Kieron Gillen

  Fashion, Dna, Superhero

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• It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Watches, Newspapers, Picks

  "How to get under Aaron Sorkin’s skin (and also, how to high-five properly)". Interview with Mario Anzuoni, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 23, 2012.

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• One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

  Michael Arndt

  Art, Spring, My Favorite

  "Michael Arndt Discusses Toy Story 3" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 02, 2010.

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• Film-making is a physically hard job.

  Alan Parker

  Jobs, Hard

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

  Alan Parker

  Different, Made, Should

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• But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Made, Afghanistan

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

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• Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Artist, People, Kind

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

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• Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Cinema, Made, Young

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• Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Past, Spirit, Made

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. uly 2005.

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  School, Hands, Adults

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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Adults, Cinema, Our Society

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• Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

  Jay Duplass

  Persistence, Right Now, Knows

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

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• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  Randy Newman

  Film Music, Proud

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• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  J. B. Priestley

  Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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