Screens Quotes - Page 20

• You have to do things that excite you; you have to have a passion for your work. Otherwise you're just a face on the screen.

  Ed Westwick

  Passion, Faces

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

  Bruno Dumont

  Narrative, Quiet, Assumption

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen.

  Takashi Miike

  Believe, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Important, Stories, France

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Writing, Challenges

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• Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

  Peter Jackson

  Writing, Play, Two

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

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• God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Twenties, Would Be

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1847). “Works: With an Account of His Life and Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.131

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• I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

  David Hockney

  Home, Iphone, Needs

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly on the screen. If you are referring to the actors, they give me different emotions, personality which represents human behavior.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Character, Giving, Personality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

  Arthur Chu

  Names, Males, Normal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

  Val Kilmer

  Directors, Three, Roles

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

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• Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Class, Icons

  "Sneak Peek! Giorgio Armani sketches of Cate Blanchett's wardrobe in Hanna" by Mary H.K. Choi, www.mtv.com. April 07, 2011.

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• I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Believe, Scripts, Forget

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• New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

  Barbra Streisand

  New York, Stars, Born

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• All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

  Jean Renoir

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

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• You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Moments, Feels, Captured

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think certain filmmakers going into Sundance or other big festivals should consider screening more for press and tastemakers before the festival. The traditional wisdom has always been the opposite: to not screen for anyone prior, let your film be seen by an audience, and generate the buzz from there.

  Thom Powers

  Thinking, Opposites, Festivals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

  Adam Gopnik

  Coffee, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• You go to a restaurant with a friend for lunch and the next table, two people are sitting opposite each other. They don't talk! All they do is look at the screens of their cell phones and show it to the person that they're with. And when people do that to me, they want me to look at pictures on their cell phone? I can't even look at little things like that. I think it is all crazy.

  Brigid Berlin

  Crazy, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It’s a shame, but also for kids it’s so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to it everywhere. If you go to Lille Eurostar station there is music playing: Why? What’s the point? It’s like showing someone a movie on a small crappy screen. It should be sounding good! There’s a lot of noise pollution, in that sense.

  Stephen Dewaele

  Kids, Phones, Noise

  "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Japan, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When you make movies, I find that I never have time to go to the movies and enjoy movies like I used to, because I'm so movied out, right, I'm so filmed out that the last thing that I wanna do is with the little spare time that I have is stick in a dark room and watch more stuff on the screen.

  James Wan

  Dark, Watches, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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