Quotes by Joe Carnahan - Page 1

I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'
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Warrior
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As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Stooges
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If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Everest
Romantic Comedy
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I got 'The Grey' made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Grey
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Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Cases
Creativity
Mean
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Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
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Fascinated
Sinatra
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The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.
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Aggressors
Meant To Be
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With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.'
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Alright
Popcorn
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When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.
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Break Even
Needs
Spending
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In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
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Homeland
Niche
Wire
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Carve
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It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Genre
Me Who Like
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I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Drafts
Hell Is
Rigorous
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I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Las Vegas
Vegas
Worst
Absolute
Best Look City
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There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
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Marketing
Wide
Broad
Vast
Net
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If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.
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Remake
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You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'
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Beauty
Extraordinary
Seven
Stand
Man-Made
Watch
Story
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In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone.
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Phenomenal
Captain
Captain America
Great Movie
Spectacle
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To be honest, most of the time you leave the theater, and you're like, 'Well, that was nice, but where did I park?' It doesn't really stick with you.
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Park
Stick
To Be Honest
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Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Canon
Particular
Television
Worry
Distinguish
Documentary
Feature
Medium
Regardless
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I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.
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Filmmaker
Heart And Soul
Hope Good Great
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I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Nice Things
Excites
Me Dead People
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Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.
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Available
Jesus Christ
World Will Find
Bust
Troubling
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I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Filmmaker
Personal Experiences
Inhibit
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I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.
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Fascinated
Notion
Good I Am People
Good I Am Bad
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To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.
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Arizona
Bones
Movies Me Look
Brothers
Coen
Movies Look Me
Smokin
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'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'
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Breeze
Structure
Versus
Bone
Skill
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To me, still my favorite 3D film is 'Dial M for Murder.' I thought that was great. Hitchcock used it, could put you in the room, which I thought was fantastic, but I'm still not a devotee of 3D.
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Hitchcock
Dial
Great Me Film
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I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.
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Adventure
Chasing
Grey
Life Time My Life
Foremost
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I have a very warm feeling about Kickstarter 'cause I think it's the best of what we can be. It's people who actually help out our fellow artists. We actually kind of go into our pocket for something. It's very rare.
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Warm
Rare
Fellow
Best People Help
Pocket
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On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Bird
Los Angeles
Affairs
Angeles
Rare
Litter
Los
Pick
Shoots
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If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Depriving
Intrigue
Unanswered
Virtue
Open-Ended
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I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the 'cable standard.'
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Faceless
Pushing
Sean
Cool Time Always
Bean
Cable
Fox
Standard
Pilot
Raw
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'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man.
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Arizona
Caring
Emotion
Great Moments
Slapstick
Wilson
Love Time Great
Bringing
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There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Calling
Contradiction
Duality
Time God Faith
God Faith Time
Exist
Helps
Profess
Same Time
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I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess. Some would argue the part that they don't want you to use.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Brain
Difficult
Fun
Grey
Pleasure
Argue
Guess
Obviously
Smokin
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There's a film that I wrote that I want to do called 'The Grey,' which is about a group of pipeline workers in Alaska flying back into civilization after being remote for a number of months. The 737 they're on goes down, and they begin to be hunted by a pack of rogue wolves.
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Alaska
Civilization
Film
Flying
Grey
Hunted
Months
Pipeline
Workers
Begin
Number
Goes
Pack
Remote
Rogue
Wolves
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I was not a gigantic fan of 'The A-Team' as a kid. I was a huge 'Miami Vice' fan. So for me, not necessarily to say that I put a 'Miami Vice'ish spin on 'The A-Team,' but for me, what I was most intrigued by was this notion of these four guys, these four kind of special operators.
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Intrigued
Miami
Notion
Gigantic
Necessarily
Spin
Vice
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I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.
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Careers
Grain
Coen
Radically
Repeat
Soderbergh
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I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.
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Ambiguous
Concrete
Path
Variables
Life Love Beautiful
Beautiful Woman
Door
Endings
Jumble
Oftentimes
Tiger
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Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Defining
Marine
Masculine
Second World War
War Man World
Being A Man
Chest
Gut
Lee
Tougher
World War
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I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?
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Down The Road
Fathom
Guts
Jason
Tape
Recorder
Tape Recorder
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My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Faith
Believer
Culmination
Waiting
Wonderful
Life Faith Hope
Devout
Whatever
Hold
Truly
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I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
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Ease
Great Book
Psychotic
Love Great Always
Realm
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'The Blacklist' was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Cinematic
Right Place
Understood
Adapt
Davis
Jon
Fox
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I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.
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Bent
Grey
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I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Individual
Special
Summit
Great Always Enough
Hit
Big Enough
Challenge
Great Sense
Monumental
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So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?
Joe Carnahan / Film Director
Acknowledge
Be A Man
Hollywood
Masculinity
Nonsensical
Scared
Carry
Exactly
Overly
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