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I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Constant
People
Thinking
Fear People Live
Fear Live People
Unfortunately
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I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Action
Action Movie
Wanted
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I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly 'Bond.'
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Action Movie
Bond
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Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Brother
Dying
Grief
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What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
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Mean
Passionate
Stories
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I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Film
Looks
Trying
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For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
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Guy
Kites
Past
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For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
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Confronted
Emotionally
Runner
Shut
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You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.
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Fulfilling
Peers
Presses
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The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
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Blank
Children
Keys
New World
World
Blank Page
Discover
Discovers
Page
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Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Brother
Died
Father
Fighting
Loving Life
Hospital
Loving
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Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.
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Important
Thinking
Winning
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I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.
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Directors
Editing
Shooting
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I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into making movies, is because I love to play.
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On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Fiction
Scripts
Writing
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On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
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Brilliant
Helm
Stranger
Stuck
Line
Page
Script
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One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.
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War
Book
Creating
Huge
Ideas
Structure
Fan
Huge Fan
Main
Reasons
Taking
World War
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I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.
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Interesting
Manifest
Anymore
Always Done Know
Exactly
Genres
Head
Script
Switch
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The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.
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Color
Goal
Mind
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I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.
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Turns
Experienced
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I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.
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Pace
Transition
Way
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The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.
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Anything Is Possible
Filmmaker
Judgment
Fresh
Interesting Thing
No Experience
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I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
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Possibility
Work Out
Unknown
Time Work Failure
Exists
Work Time Failure
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Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.
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Hands
Media
Names
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When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday.
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Expression
Inspire
People
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It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.
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Technology
Distance
Moving
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When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.
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Inspiration
Moving
Talking
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All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films.
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Character
Different
Dresses
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'Quantum of Solace' was a bit of a different circumstance than a lot of my other films because you're stepping into a franchise, and also in that particular film, we're dealing with a script from the writer's strike, which was difficult to handle because there was never time to really develop a finished script.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Finished
Handle
Quantum
Solace
Circumstance
Dealing
Franchise
Script
Stepping
Strike
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I thought it would be easy to cast a Bond girl, because there are so many beautiful women in this world. But not many of them can act. Their acting needed to be really strong and three-dimensional. Historically, the role of women in the world has changed. You can't have someone in a Bond film just as a sex object.
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Girl
Beautiful
Strong
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You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.
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Country
Epidemics
Walking Dead
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I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head. It becomes less interesting. If I read something that's challenging, I get really passionate and usually fall in love with it, because I feel I need to do it. I need to tell the story; I need to find a way to make it happen.
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Falling In Love
Interesting
Thinking
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I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear. I think the government - and people in general - create scenarios people fear, because ultimately through fear you can control people. I wish we could live in a world where there would be no fear, but it's a driving force in many decisions people make these days, whether it's personal, economic, or even job-related. A lot of people stay out of fear in a job they hate.
Marc Forster / Filmmaker
Hate
People
Thinking
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