Steven Sebring Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Editors, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Moving, Editing

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• I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Film, Taking Pictures

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• Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the film [Dream of Life], I thought, man, I need to make sense of all the footage I have; I need to ground the film. And one day I was hanging out in Patti's [Smith] bedroom, which is where Patti works, and in the corner of her bedroom is this great chair, and that's when she began showing her personal things to me. The camera was there, and we realized that we were really making the movie and making sense of the footage in the movie.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Men, Editing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Editing, Rooms

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• I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting that through Patti [Smith] - because she takes pictures, performs, writes; she does so many things, and that was a big inspiration to me. It helped me realized that I'm not just a fashion photographer. I wanted to do all these other artistic things as well, and during filming my mind opened up to those possibilities.

  Steven Sebring

  Fashion, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of the trust between us. There isn't any real self-consciousness in the film because we all like each other.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I just said, "We'll do this. We'll do that." It was a really great experience that way.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, School, Editing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Life Is, Film

• The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Self, Consciousness

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• For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.

  Steven Sebring

  Photography, Moving, Film

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• I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

  Steven Sebring

  Views, Messengers, Film

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• We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically, so nothing was synced and nothing was slated.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

  Steven Sebring

  School, Film, Film School

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• The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Animal, Editing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

  Steven Sebring

  The End Of The Day, Honest, Film

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• When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested in films, and so I just kept asking her if I could come around.

  Steven Sebring

  Asking, Information, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Sound, Film

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• For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Film, Bigs

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• It took 12 years to put this film [Dream of Life] together, but it was not until toward the end of those 12 years that I looked at Patti [Smith] and said, "Maybe we should do something with this footage."

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Years, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].

  Steven Sebring

  Dream, Guitar, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I remember when we were at Sundance, we were in Robert Redford's screening room, and I had never seen the film look so beautiful or sound so great. It was really big and really powerful, and I had a sense of accomplishment in finishing a project like this.

  Steven Sebring

  Beautiful, Powerful, Accomplishment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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