Film Quotes - Page 37

• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Firsts, Language, Generic

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• This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

  Jet Li

  Hero, People, Chinese

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• Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Firsts, Actors, Able

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• When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

  Shirley Knight

  Mother, Roles, Best Times

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• Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

  Chaim Potok

  Names

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• I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

  Gus Van Sant

  Real, People, Feelings

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

  Gus Van Sant

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, People, Feelings

  Interview with Armistead Maupin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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• As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

  Andrea Arnold

  Long, Way, Budgets

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• Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

  Andrea Arnold

  Firsts, Starting, First Time

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• Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

  Andrea Arnold

  Decision

  "I like darkness" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2006.

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• For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

  Andrea Arnold

  Lonely, Trying, Way

  "Real life in the Fish Tank" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

  Andrea Arnold

  Directors, Want, Kind

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• I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

  Andrea Arnold

  Issues, Theme, Wanted

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• I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

  Tim Roth

  Hands, Acting, Fascination

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• I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

  Tim Roth

  People, Trying, Scripts

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• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Book, Writing

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Trying, Facts, Negative

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

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• I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

  Morena Baccarin

  Nice, Independent, Light

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

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• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  Carter Burwell

  Adhesive, Narrative, Subliminal

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• I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

  Carter Burwell

  Listening

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• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

  Dario Argento

  Mind, Made, Persons

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• To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

  Dario Argento

  Strong, Special, Trying

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