Roger Corman Quotes - Page 2

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• People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

  Roger Corman

  Art, People, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

  Roger Corman

  Artist, Venice, Two

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• First, you have to be intelligent. I have never met a successful director who isn't intelligent. A director who is not intelligent might have one hit picture, but he won't be able to follow it up. So I look for intelligence.

  Roger Corman

  Successful, Intelligent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Somebody who moved up very fast was Jim Cameron, who was a young guy out of - I think he came from Arizona, from some community college there, and he was building model spaceships, on a picture called Battle Beyond the Stars.

  Roger Corman

  College, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was young, so I was part of youth culture. The years went by, I became older and no longer part of youth culture, and I became more dependent upon the young people in the office and my own children.

  Roger Corman

  Children, People, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Creative, Mind

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There was a fairly big difference between Detroit and Beverly Hills. I remember this. Detroit actually was a prosperous bustling city when we moved here in 1941. But the first day in Detroit, you always wore a shirt and a tie to school. And I wore a shirt and a tie to Beverly Hills High School, and a girl came up to me and said, "Where are you from?" And I said, "Detroit." And she said, "And you won't be wearing a tie tomorrow, will you?" And I said, "You're absolutely correct." So that was my first adjustment to a slightly more casual environment.

  Roger Corman

  Girl, School, Tomorrow

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I am not certain. And I was just impressed by, first, the story itself. I didn't know that much about films. But the acting, the director. And particularly, the cinematography, the black-and-white use of exteriors, I noted particularly.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Acting, Remember

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior that they had two film critics on the Stanford Daily, and they got free passes to all the theaters in Palo Alto. So I thought, I'll do that, and I became a film critic. And then I became interested in films. But I had no time to study anything in that area because I was a senior, just finishing up as engineering.

  Roger Corman

  Senior, Study, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an underground picture he had made in New York, a black-and-white film. I had done a picture for American International, about a Southern woman bandit, the Ma Barker story, and it was very successful, and I had left to start my own company, and they wanted me to make another one.

  Roger Corman

  Successful, Guy, Southern

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

  Roger Corman

  Proof, Cameron, Ifs

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• As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

  Roger Corman

  Stronger, Directors, Littles

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• There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.

  Roger Corman

  Cities, People, West

  Source: collider.com

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