Michael Patrick Jann Quotes

• I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Sports, Video, Shooting

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• And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Style, Energy, Shooting

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• Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Opportunity, Thinking, Lucky

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• If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Trying, Succeed, Decent

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• Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  School, Knowing, Connections

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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