Neil Burger Quotes

• I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

  Neil Burger

  Thinking, Want Something, Want

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

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• But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

  Neil Burger

  Needs, Stories, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.

  Neil Burger

  Creating, Audience Of One, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking photographs at the same time, and architecture, though it had the design element, it didn't have the narrative, emotional element that I was looking to do. I ended up painting for a while. I was dancing around it, and I realized that all these different interests came together in filmmaking.

  Neil Burger

  Emotional, Dancing, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.

  Neil Burger

  Integrity, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, the movie is about power.

  Neil Burger

  Source: collider.com

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• On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.

  Neil Burger

  Hands, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm working on a number of different things. I'm working on a couple of TV things and I'm working on a couple of film things too, and they're all very early stages. One of them I'm writing myself, one of them I'm writing with somebody else, and one of them I'm supervising a writer, and they're all sort of coming up at the same time and it'll be interesting to see which one kind of reveals itself first and jumps ahead.

  Neil Burger

  Couple, Writing, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through.

  Neil Burger

  Writing, Journey, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.

  Neil Burger

  Cutting, Editing, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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