Quotes by Baltasar Kormakur - Page 1

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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Insight
Letting
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Iceland
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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No Life
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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Bergman
Ice
Sea
Talked
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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Connected
Iceland
Sea
Family History Men
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Iceland
Trapped
Anyway
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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Fascinated
Small Town
Trapped
Developed
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In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.
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Iceland
Relevant
Weather
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
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Depth
Iceland
Intimate
Scope
Big Enough
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With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
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Elements
Loud
Noise
Separation
Storm
Volume
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Budgets
Iceland
Productions
Bringing
Spot
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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Brutal
Good Business Great
Boats
Educated People
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We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.
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Cgi
Everest
Matching
Work Will Way
Enhance
Work Way Will
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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Cinema
Epic
Real Story
Scope
Keep Important People
Evolving
Teenagers
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Mask
Psychoanalysis
Superhero
Bloated
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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Dream It
Poem
Source Material
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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Alter
Big Fan
Butch
Change The World
Have Fun
Tremendously
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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Amazed
Everest
Humbling
Scouting
Visceral
Volume
Me Way Real
Me Way Find
Base
Camp
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'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
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Adventure
Everest
Intimate
Oath
Psychological
Claustrophobic
World Me Perfect
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Ocean
Competing
Iceland
Sail
Weather
Wild
Horses
Inhabitants
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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Confident
Directing
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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
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Enemy
Tempted
Well Known
Money Movies Doing
Studio Movies
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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Best Way
Best Talent People
Version
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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Good Story
No Problem
Different Places
Good Me Problems
Hamlet
Hundred Years
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When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.
Baltasar Kormakur /
Damn
Iron
Iron Man
Relief
Serious
Superhero
Weird
Love Man Me
Cape
Have Fun
Lecture
Some People
Weird Thing
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The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
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Airline
Frustrated
Iceland
Anywhere Else
Claustrophobic
Escape
Winters
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Filmmaking
Lifestyle
Scripts
Life Work Today
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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Broke
Glad
Abroad
Work Movies Me
Barrier
Opened
Spell
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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Myth
Distributed
Financed
Title
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