Quotes by James Watkins - Page 1

Directing is an act of interpretation.
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Interpretation
Directing
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I don't really watch a load of 'Game Of Thrones.'
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Load
Game Of Thrones
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'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.
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Gangster
Giant
Godfather
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If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.
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Legs
Notion
Sopranos
Criminal
Element
The Sopranos
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Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
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Explore
Troubling
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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Ghost
Horror Film
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There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.
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Nasty
Scary
Horror Films
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We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.
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Collusion
Tense
Gangster
Worlds
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I think audiences are far too sophisticated now to have an English actor putting on a Russian accent - it feels fake.
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Fake
Sophisticated
Accent
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Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.
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Multiple
Victorian
Narratives
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We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.
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Invisible
Criminal
Exists
Web
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I've got lots of friends who would just think, 'Horror movies - they're crap, aren't they?' I think there's a cultural snobbery more than an institutional one.
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Snobbery
Lots
Cultural
Horror Movies
Institutional
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Chemistry's a weird thing. You can see actors who are friends in real life but have no screen chemistry. Then there are actors who don't get on but have great chemistry.
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Chemistry
Real Life
Weird Thing
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The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.
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Exploring
Terrain
Affords
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If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely on if they are criminal or politically exposed in their own country.
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Dirty
Exposed
Rely
Safe Haven
Money Look People
Criminal
Haven
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Filming in India was very special. The chaos, the noise, and the sensory overload was all really wonderful. It was a new world to me, and being able to capture that was incredible.
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Capture
Chaos
New World
Noise
Overload
Sensory
World Me New
Filming
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Living in London, you feel the sense of how it has developed into a service city. People come here from around the world - both to launder their money and launder their reputations.
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London
City People
Developed
Reputations
Service
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If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.
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Mafia
Modern Era
Sopranos
Criminal
Organisations
The Sopranos
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For action to work, you need an awful lot of coverage. Because if you do a fight sequence, you really need to be able to creed the energy in the edit or augment the energy in the edit. So you need to really, really cover it.
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Coverage
Sequence
Awful Lot
Creed
Edit
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I just think action films now have... often, because you can do anything with CGI, people do. And I don't think you necessarily should. You lose that sort of human dimension, and you get all the stuff breaking the laws of physics.
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Action Films
Cgi
Physics
Breaking
Dimension
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As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is not going to be the same as the director's vision. It doesn't mean one is better or worse; it means they're different.
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Frustrations
Screenwriter
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Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.
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Corporate
Organised
Underworld
Criminal
Indeed
Territories
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As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.
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Conclusion
Logical
Directing
Intended
Screenwriter
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In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.
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Architecture
Coast
France
Istanbul
Prague
Turkish
Double
Split
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The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.
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Alex
Ambition
Audience
East
Middle
Middle East
Series
South
South America
Africa
Begun
Continue
Detail
Drop
Explore
Necessarily
Places
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