Film Quotes - Page 33

• When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

  Rob Zombie

  Moving, Release Date, Two

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• I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

  David Naughton

  Italian, Rome, Wanted

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• People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

  Gena Rowlands

  Independent, Passion, People

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• It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.

  Mitali Perkins

  Pain, Creative, Community

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• Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Independent, People

  "At the top of his stand-up game" by Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. August 23, 2007.

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• All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close to the earth, but not close enough...I'm happy to have seen a glimpse into her life. It encourages me to live as radically as I want. Tish's film is a grand one.

  Janisse Ray

  Glimpse, Looks, Earth

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• I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques. What I hope for is that technology advances to the point that films in the future will depend on a little pill which you take; then you sit in the dark, and from your eyes you project the film you want to see on a blank wall.

  Luis Bunuel

  Wall, Eye, Dark

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• And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

  Jacques Rivette

  People, Facts, Certain

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• Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

  Jonas Mekas

  Brother, New York, Home

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• I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

  Jonas Mekas

  Real, Moments, Spontaneous

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• We need less perfect but more free films.

  Jonas Mekas

  Perfect, Needs

  Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

  Trip Hawkins

  Games, Economy, Release

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• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  Laura Mvula

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Book, Mean, Ideas

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• I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

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• Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Opportunity, Ideas, Way

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

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• Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.

  Elliot Grove

  Careers, Ploughing, Tools

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• If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Play, People

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• If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit

  Aamir Khan

  Katrina, Ifs

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• You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

  Eli Roth

  Horror, Best Things, Knows

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• If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

  Eli Roth

  Eye, Ears, Want

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• Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Purpose, Use, Ugly

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• Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

  Gore Verbinski

  Different, Lines, Digital

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• If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

  George A. Romero

  Horror Genre, Dies, Ifs

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

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• I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

  Dario Argento

  Moving, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. September 23, 2008.

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