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All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Believed
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Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Exotic
Turns
Boarding
Boarding School
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If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Floating
Happens
Producers
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I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Direct
Request
Question
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I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Cinema
Found
Life Is
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From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Standpoint
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I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Trust
People
Relax
Thinking
Talented
Hire
Talented People
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Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Assignments
Meant To Be
Providing
Music Videos
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I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Clock
Filmmaking
Months
Narrative
Rhythm
Tempo
Stopped
Commercials
Films
Videos
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I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Agnostic
Err
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I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Film School
Craft
Elite
Feature
Treat
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I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Compromise
Screen
Voices
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Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Break
Lunch
Best Great Your
Casually
Commercials
Films
Hint
Hire
Production
Planet
Tip
Trim
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I learned that when you're lucky enough to be surrounded by such talented people that you really become more of an orchestrator of this talent - you're just trying to harmonise everyone's contributions.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Lucky
Talent
Contributions
Talented
Surrounded
Talented People
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In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Billing
Deserve
Equal
Author
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The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
Mark Romanek / Filmmaker
Commitment
Falling In Love
Half
Passion
Wake Up
Love Morning Day
Falling
Trick
Screen
Wake
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