Joseph Kosinski Quotes

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• You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Kids, Watches, Watch Movie

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

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• Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Ideas, Pay, Taste

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

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• It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Unique, People, Giving

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

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• Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, Who I Am, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Stars, War, Way

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

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• I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, Stuff, Excitement

  "Director Joseph Kosinski Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Reveals the Extent of the Re-Shoots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 26, 2010.

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• Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

  Joseph Kosinski

  School, Design, Littles

  "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, People, Movie Love

  Source: collider.com

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• As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Scary, Directors, Want

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

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• Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Tents, Giants, Should

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

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• I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Fans, Electronic Music, Music Fans

  "'Tron Legacy' Director Joseph Kosinski Raves About 3-D And Daft Punk". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. January 20, 2010.

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• In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Fiction, World, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Blessing, Hands, People

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

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• I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Taken, Thinking, Needs

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

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• Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Opinion, Exception, Courses

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

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• When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

  Joseph Kosinski

  School, Night, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

  Joseph Kosinski

  People, Able, Surprise

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

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• Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Attitude

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

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• But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Careers, Watches, Would Be

  "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.

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• There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, Focus, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Careers, Perfect, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

  Joseph Kosinski

  People, Film, Process

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Important, Path

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Confusing, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Successful, Want, Directors

  Source: screenrant.com

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