Film Quotes - Page 31

• Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

  Roger Ebert

  Good Films

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• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  Federico Fellini

  Writing, Thinking, Critics

  "I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon". Book edited by Damian Pettigrew, December 1, 2003.

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• Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

  Clive James

  Crazy, Want

  Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Years, Water, Industry

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

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• If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

  George Lucas

  Art, Moving, Passion

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• When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

  George Lucas

  Survival, Important, Able

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• When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

  Leslie Caron

  Careers, Would Be, Lilies

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• I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

  Leslie Caron

  Japan, Cinema, Festivals

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• I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

  Ken Burns

  Daughter, Children, Brooklyn Bridge

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• I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

  Ken Burns

  New York, Reading, Jazz

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• I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

  Ken Burns

  Editing, Records, Shapes

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• I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Years, Expectations

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• In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

  Ken Burns

  Made

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• In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

  Ken Burns

  Film Music, Amplify, Want

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• When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, Style, Documentaries

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• Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

  Vinton Cerf

  Needs, May, Digital

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• I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

  Scott Caan

  Struggle, Who I Am, Want

  "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Movie, Real, Mind

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

  John Denver

  Incapable, Knows

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

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• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Opportunity, Years, Done

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• When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Real, Museums, Trying

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

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• Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

  Sean O'Casey

  Stars, Ignorance, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1956). “Inishfallen, fare thee well. Rose and crown. Sunset and evening star”, MacMillan

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• There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

  David Chase

  Tempted, Fascinated

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• When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

  David Chase

  Together, Sopranos, My Favorite

  "David Chase's Teenage Dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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