Quotes by Mark Waters - Page 1

I find women much more interesting than dudes.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Women Find More
Dudes
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Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.
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Zombie
Frankenstein
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After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist.
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Teen
Freaky
Friday
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Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?
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Adaptation
Cinema
Envision
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When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.
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Blinders
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The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Sense Of Humor
Twilight
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I've read the whole 'Divergent' series, the 'Pretty' series. I just read it because I find this stuff interesting to read.
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Divergent
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In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
Mark Waters / Film Director
College
San Francisco
Years
Francisco
San
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A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Apologizing
First Time
Firsts
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A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'
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Apologizing
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I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Young Actors
Love Time Mind
Chair
Wrap
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My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.'
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Dying
Genre
Likes
Screenwriter
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The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Host
Instruments
Sincerity
Dreadful
Infected
Mortal
The One Thing
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My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Enjoyed
Directing
Teams
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Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Sports
Basketball
Billiards
Chess
Comedy
Drama
Hockey
Pace
Speed
Poker
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When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'
Mark Waters / Film Director
Sports
Slipping
Hit
Directing
Line
Metaphors
Park
Punch
Punch Line
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Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Crazy
Daydreaming
Kind
Play
Resolve
Scenarios
Miraculously
Personally
Save
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I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Action
Effects
Heaven
Imagery
Computer-Generated
Motion
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If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.
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Twilight
Effective
Good Movies Look
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'Twilight' was about a naive person who knew nothing of a certain world, basically discovering that this world existed and totally being indoctrinated into it and falling in love with a vampire, which is interesting.
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Discovering
Falling In Love
Twilight
Vampire
Existed
Falling
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I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.
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Reader
Visual
Be Different
Everybody Else
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I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
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Dubious
Indiana
Moral Character
Attempt
Play Basketball
Stems
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Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Dialogue
Lucy
Navigate
Young Actors
Work Day Start
Fry
Unlike
Immediately
Partying
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Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.
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Heartbreak
Boiling
Emotion
Finite
Intensely
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Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Film School
Directing
Relinquish
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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Comic
Fey
Heels
Intensity
Brief
Maintain
Task
Tina
Tina Fey
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People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel like you're not following and you're going to get tested on it later, you're going to get disengaged. So, you have to give people just enough information, so that they're able to keep up with the story.
Mark Waters / Film Director
Giving
Missing
People
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