Film Quotes - Page 29

• It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

  Michael Kenna

  Running, Photography, Thinking

  Interview with Brooks Jensen, www.michaelkenna.net. October 2003.

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• This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

  Justin Simien

  Race, Mass Culture, White

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• The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

  Phil Ramone

  Directors, Records, World

  "Grammy-winning producer Phil Ramone dies at 79", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2013.

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• When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a great extent, the film is a mythological look on human life. This is probably what I would like the audience to keep in mind before they enter the screening room.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Everyday, Mind, Looks

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• Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

  Mike Figgis

  Drama, Accidents

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• When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

  Mike Figgis

  Musician, Singers, Way

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• The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

  Francois Truffaut

  Beautiful, Light, Theatre

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• A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

  Francois Truffaut

  Movie, Boat, Break

  Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.

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• During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

  Francois Truffaut

  Falling In Love, War, Cinema

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• You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

  Josephine Decker

  Nice, Thinking, Want

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• Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

  David Salle

  Connections, Fluidity, Painting

  Interview with Robert Rosenblum, www.lehmannmaupin.com.

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• I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

  Judd Apatow

  Film Critics, People, Magazines

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

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• They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Book, People, Action

  "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 09, 2013.

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• I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Adventure, Journey, Stories

  "Highway Diaries: Songs of the Kashmir valley echo in ‘Highway’" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

  Andrew Dominik

  Crime, Feels, Capitalism

  "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The crime film is the most honest American film.

  Andrew Dominik

  Honest, Crime, American Film

  "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.

  Graydon Carter

  Notebook, Memories, Taken

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

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• I'm a huge Aamir Khan fan. I love Aamir, so everything he does is brilliant. We expect something different from somebody like Aamir, whether it's in promotion, or whether it's in a film, and plus it has RajKumar Hirani.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Fans, Doe, Different

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• What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

  John Huston

  Magic, Trying, Working It

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• We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

  Woody Allen

  Censorship, Lit, Pornography

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Important, Glory

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

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• A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

  Russell Baker

  Father, Writing, Exercise

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• It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all.

  Glenn Close

  Names, Worry, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

  Alex Kendrick

  Song, Children, Powerful

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• Film is a collective experience, as you know.

  Sydney Pollack

  Collectives, Knows

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