Quotes about american-director
american-director audiences entire interested movies sort
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career. Lana Wachowski
american-director genre mess start twist
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
american-director films
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. Ted Demme
american-director people
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys. Stan Brakhage
american-director billy bob brad clooney george known pitt stars
Billy Bob and Fran are very well known actors, but aren't the kind of movie stars in the sense that George Clooney and Brad Pitt are. Joel Coen
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. Philip Kaufman
american-director society structure
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.
american-director atmosphere city create creepy great hitchcock homage movies shot sort twists vertigo
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.
american-director disturb kept presented therefore
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
american-director analyze criticism films possible
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films. Paul Schrader
american-director people
We think people will really like what we've done and will want to incorporate it into their campaigns, but they shouldn't feel that they have to. Sam Wood
american-director recognized respect source utmost
We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
american-director attack page quick until
With Roger, it would be: 'On Page 67, we think this is a little quick to have another attack of Piranhas, so could you put it off until Page 69?' John Sayles
american-director cast producer
You have to be a producer nowadays. You have to find the subject, find the writer, find the cameraman, cast it, and then you go to a producer. Vincente Minnelli
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. Mark Rydell
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. John Frankenheimer
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.
american-director hope weekend worked
We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.
american-director host sexual street woman
We had this idea about a woman who you would see on the street and make a host of sexual assumptions, and they would all be wrong.
american-director came feature opportunity
When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days. Richard Donner
american-director bother certainly filming until
Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed. Terry Zwigoff
american-director intimidate scene somebody
What I often find is it has to do with, is we need somebody who's in one scene to intimidate somebody who's over 5'10' and there I am on the set.
american-director feeding stuff
You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens? Morgan Spurlock
american-director decision owned
Make every decision as if you owned the whole company. Robert Townsend
american-director wars
'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them. John Milius
american-director
Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.
american-director good ideas limited time
Many ideas are good for a limited time - not forever.
american-director felt full
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos. Ray Harryhausen
american-director call charles max robert
So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.
american-director bought bunch editing money moved saving super
So I was saving up my money and bought a Super 8 camera, projector, some editing equipment, a bunch of film stock, and moved to Austin. Richard Linklater
american-director bring children needs parents ratings system
On the other hand, I think the ratings system needs some reworking. I don't think this is a movie parents should bring underage children to.