Good Films Quotes - Page 5

• Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Country, Art, House

  "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.

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• Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

  Gretchen Mol

  People, Film, Hopefully

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• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Directors, Needs, Elements

  "Aaron Johnson Talks SAVAGES and KICK-ASS 2; Says Filming Begins This Fall and It'll Be Rated R". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Things In Life, Cameras, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

  Errol Flynn

  Six, Film, Seven

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

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• It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Football, Games

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• That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.

  Sharlto Copley

  Powerful, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

  Boman Irani

  The End Of The Day, Directors, Film

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• I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

  Paul Dano

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

  Matthew William Goode

  Country, Dream, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

  Tim Bevan

  What Matters, Foundation, Directors

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• If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

  Tobey Maguire

  Fall, Creating, Preparation

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• A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Successful, Simple, Film

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• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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• There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Talking, Years

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• I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Thinking, Film, Novel

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 338, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

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

  Roger Ebert

  Film

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• I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Thinking, Life Is

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• If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

  Christopher Hampton

  Book, Film, Ifs

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

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• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Jobs, Thinking, Lucky

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Independent, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

  Stanley Clarke

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Films Come to Life with Stanley Clarke's Music". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.

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• You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

  Crispin Glover

  Jobs, Thinking, World

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• Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

  Giovanna Cau

  Writing, Scripts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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