James Schamus
James Schamus
James Allan Schamusis an American award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine production company, and the CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company, until its merging with FilmDistrict...
future including window
Look out that window and you see a lot of people, including a lot of young ladies, ... That's the future of our film.
filmmakers films human
Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.
brought budget people realize scale scope skill
It doesn't have anything to do with the budget of the film. It has to do with the scope and scale of ambition, and the skill that people brought to it to realize that ambition.
earthly life love shame shed skin
When we shed our earthly skin and when our real life begins, there will be no shame .... Just the love that we have made before time.
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Damn if these characters aren't gay to me. What Jake might have meant is that these guys live outside of a social construction of a gay identity.
heath known roles
I've known Heath for a long time. I always thought he was underserved in a lot of the roles he did.
jokes says
It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.
gay love truly upset
It wasn't much of a decision, ... If someone is upset about (the gay love story) it's their problem. We really, truly don't care.
difficult extremely fantasy rock
It was extremely difficult to live in a fantasy world of movie and rock at the same time,
screens
They want us on 2,000 screens right away.
thank
So we want to thank our shepherd, Ang Lee.
bites came couple dusty fan gossip internet
It came from a couple bites on the Internet that collided. It showed up on one of these gossip sites, and Ang and I were like, 'Huh? What?' I'm a Dusty Springfield fan but it's all completely fabricated.
engaged informed interest looked people places seek
We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.
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Once people saw the film, they understood that it was a film about a kind of epic greatness that can exist in anyone, anywhere, no matter who they are, no matter what their sexual orientation or class or historical circumstances.