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
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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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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. John Sayles
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 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. Terry Zwigoff
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.
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Certainly since Freudian times, we all recognize that there is something called the libido, and that there are various ways of inspiring it.
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But the idea of a man being killed during an episode of love and coming back as a woman started to impress me more and more and more.
american-director hal job
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. Douglas Trumbull
american-director care fail films point suddenly view work
From my point of view I work just as hard, I care just as much, if the films fail it doesn't make me suddenly disown them, it just doesn't. Sydney Pollack
american-director somewhat stories telling
I don't think we soft-pedal anything. These stories are pretty extreme, but the way we're telling them makes them somewhat more humorous.
american-director audience hanging means onto work
If it doesn't work with an audience you have to make changes, even if it means not hanging onto the things that are your little favourites. Bobby Farrelly
american-director borderline everybody magical screen sure
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him. Mark Rydell
american-director eliminate excuses manager tasks
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
american-director bounds caught dead defeat profound until
I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide. Joshua Logan
american-director choice nervous olivia pull whether
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all. Randal Kleiser
american-director desire hope less maybe music next soon work
I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one. Cameron Crowe