Filmmaker Quotes - Page 33

• Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Intuition, Vision, Masters

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.

  Malcolm Goodwin

  Dream, Jobs, Growing Up

  "iZombie Actor Malcolm Goodwin: Life-Changing Leap of Faith". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.

  James Franco

  Attitude, Inspire, Littles

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• I'm a filmmaker, I'm a storyteller, an entertainer, if you will, so what can I do to participate? Well, I'm not a scientist; I'm not an expert on environmental law; I'm a guy that can tell stories. So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

  Adrian Grenier

  Law, Ideas, Guy

  "Adrian Grenier: Producer and Entourage Actor Talks About the Lonely Whale". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker.

  Laura Prepon

  Play, Inspire, Actresses

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

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• The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Mixing, Different

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

  Jeff Bridges

  Typical, Scripts, Hell

  "Jeff Bridges talks to us about his gripping new movie and why he wants to play The Dude again". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

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• I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

  Sarah Silverman

  Writing, Mercy, Know How

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• I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

  Sarah Silverman

  Couple, Lucky

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all media, so TV, movies, eventually, digital, whatever you get into. That's the goal. We're using the same philosophy as my institute, which is to make it research-based and really try to work directly with filmmakers and content creators and move the needle. It's the only film festival in the world where the prizes are guaranteed distribution.

  Geena Davis

  Philosophy, Moving, Squares

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.

  Emma Watson

  Data, Female, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

  Logan Lerman

  Reflection, Actors, You Choose

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• It's really interesting to observe each filmmaker's approach to filmmaking and I feel very fortunate to have worked with a lot of really interesting filmmakers and they all approach their job in unique ways.

  Logan Lerman

  Jobs, Unique, Interesting

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I love learning from the filmmakers that I'm working with, but more importantly, I love learning from the crew.

  Logan Lerman

  Crew

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each department, and they know the language of how to communicate with each department well enough, so that their vision is clearly transferred to the screen. So I like to spend time on sets learning from all of the departments and seeing how they approach their jobs. It's not just filmmakers, you know? There's so many mediums involved. I love learning about all of the mediums.

  Logan Lerman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Vision

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.

  Logan Lerman

  Video, Fields, Study

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

  Logan Lerman

  Assuming, Should, Know How

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

  Logan Lerman

  Collective Effort, Collectives, Involved

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

  Zoe Saldana

  Trust Me, Trails, Studios

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

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• I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Mean, Scripts, Complicated

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The movie studios, they only like to make - I make a joke, but it's true - if the movie has the word "man" and a number in the title, they'll make it. If it doesn't have that, it's an R-rated raunchy comedy, and that's it. Any other movie that you're going to make is going to be an independent one. So for filmmakers who want to do something other than "man" and a number, it's either independent films or television, which is like the place for real creative filmmakers to go.

  Rob Reiner

  Real, Independent, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Light, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work.

  Alicia Vikander

  People, Actors, Chance

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 2, 2016.

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• John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.

  George Hamilton

  Believe, Character, Guy

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt. It's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.

  Chloe Zhao

  Character, Reality, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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