Quotes about american-director
american-director arrive coming creating miss people period short start together
I'll miss the idea of 400 people coming together for such a short period of time. They arrive and then just start creating theater.
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I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school. Randal Kleiser
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I still am somewhat guarded with my feelings. A lot of writers find it much easier to express themselves on paper. That hasn't changed. Neil LaBute
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It was good training to think spatially and to think in terms of story boarding and so on. So I was already a filmmaker but I hadn't realized it yet. James Cameron
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It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses. Mark Rydell
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It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen. Penelope Spheeris
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It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
american-director olivia production song
As we went into production, there was no song for Olivia and no idea where we would put it. It was not even on the production schedule.
american-director percent waste
All organizations are at least 50 percent waste - waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time. Robert Townsend
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Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. Douglas Trumbull
american-director bad
I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.
american-director eighty listed people
I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself. Ray Harryhausen
american-director
I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.
american-director assistant critical director mood runs tenor
The first assistant director runs the set. The whole mood of the movie, the whole tenor of the set comes off that person, and it's just a critical choice. John Frankenheimer
american-director characters elaborate fairly people result
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. Joel Coen
american-director continue fresh hopefully people stimulate stuff
You want to keep it fresh and you hopefully can keep doing new stuff that's going to continue to stimulate and keep people interested.
american-director bad develop maybe screen theaters wrote
And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet. John Sayles
american-director genre germ whatever
And is there a movie, whatever the genre here, that I would like to go see? If I can see the germ of that there, I'll usually take the job.
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The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
american-director improvise might trying written
You don't improvise. Well, you might improvise in a moment, trying to find something but for the most part everything is written by Woody, every word.
american-director work
You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.
american-director designer gives pick
You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.
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There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important. Peter Farrelly
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Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
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We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.
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Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A. Philip Kaufman
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It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
american-director dual external following haunted might searching shot truth
I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.
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The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
american-director fought initially paramount san shoot though
This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
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That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.
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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.