Quotes by Robert Zemeckis - Page 1

You can't legislate sobriety.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Inspirational
Sobriety
Legislate
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Good directing is good writing and good casting.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Casting
Good Writing
Directing
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Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Favorite Movie
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Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.
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Mysteries
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Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.
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Life
Mystery
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USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.
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Film School
Lineage
Usc
Always Drama School
Real Sense
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Function
Human Beings
Isolation
Wells
Beings
Human
Well
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I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Documentaries
Television
Watches
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We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
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Alone
Responsible
Ultimately
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I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Complaints
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Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Work Will Anything
Foster
Jodie Foster
Tom
Tom Hanks
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I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Hitchcock
Kind
Worthwhile
Good Never Anything
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As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Character
Filmmaker
Villain
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No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.
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Matter
Obstacles
Path
Way
Them
Through
How
Except
Ways
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I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.
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Arabia
Dramatic
Fabulous
See Why Reason
Lawrence
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Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.
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Light
Moving
The End Of The Day
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The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Longing
Love Work Movies
In My Opinion
Love Stories
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When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
War
Action
Effects
Fascinated
Horror
Special
Special Effects
Anything
Loved
Monster
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Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
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Magnificent
Art Form
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The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.
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Guy
Interesting
Wire
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I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Conflict
Constant
Stylistically
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I'm really tired of making these huge, over-$100 million movies where they literally mean life and death for a studio. It's really rough making these expensive movies. Everyone is hysterical.
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Expensive
Hysterical
Life And Death
Rough
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'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.
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Box Office
Good Movie
Absolute
Wanna
Automatic
Disasters
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It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.
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Visual
Close-Up
Performer
Unrealistic
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I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.
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Brand New
Invisible
Tools
World People New
Filmmakers
Perfect World
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From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.
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Attention
Cinema
Creating
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From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.
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Cinema
Creating
Digital
Much Attention
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Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.
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Break
Expensive
Gotten
Market
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We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Box Office
Censorship
Tacit
Tied
People See Know
People Know See
Circumstance
Directly
Ratings
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I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.
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Go Away
Business Good Movies
Good Movies
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I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.
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Like Love
People
Two
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All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.
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Art
Different
Thinking
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In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Movies
Clouds
Color
Couple
Moving
Ties
Tree
Adjust
Images
Mouth
Tie
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I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.
Robert Zemeckis / Film Director
Chicago
Window
Watched
Ladies
Mostly
Regularly
South Side
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When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
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Abuse
Invisible
Fight People New
Defy
New Thing
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I think the thing that I love the most about working in the digital cinema is that you're only limited in your cinematic technique by your imagination - you're not restricted by the physical laws of nature. You don't have to worry about physically moving a 50lb camera through space, or worry about shadows and rigging.
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Law
Moving
Thinking
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No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.
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Closest
Doom
Dread
Fearful
Horrible
Longing
Melancholy
Life Love Will
Attempt
Life Love Feel
Define
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