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In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.
Neil Jordan
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Film Director
Dream
Directors
Too Much
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A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.
Neill Blomkamp
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Film Director
Inspirational
America
Done
Feels
People
Used
Years
Done Me People
Lot
Me
Been
Films
Making
Unbelievably
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I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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Film Director
Massage
Paint
Storytelling
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When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
Norman Jewison
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Film Director
Choreography
Musical
Numbers
Shooting
Track
Work Out
Shoot
Tracks
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
Oren Peli
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Film Director
Demon
Exorcist
Ghost
Watches
Watched
Demons
Ghosts
Refused
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I really believe that, as filmmakers, we have a duty, which is, if we're asking people to pay a premium price for a 3D ticket, we have a duty to deliver a premium product.
Paul W. S. Anderson
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Film Director
Premium
Deliver
Ticket
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I don't think of 'Monsters, Inc.' as existing in the same space as Carl Frederickson from 'Up,' or whatever, you know? They seem like completely different universes to me.
Pete Docter
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Film Director
Space
Monsters
Existing
Seem
Universes
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The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Film Director
Anxiety
People
Today
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Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.
Richard Linklater
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Film Director
Fascinating
Wave
German
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From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
Ridley Scott
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Film Director
Film Industry
Horizon
African
Appear
Rare
From Time To Time
South African
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The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
Robert Wise
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Film Director
Film
Pebbles
Sand
Standpoint
Favorite Films
Suppose
Logistical
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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
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Film Director
Conflict
Constant
Stylistically
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I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
Sam Mendes
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Film Director
Believe
Directors
Enjoyable
Live Performance
Theater
Thinking
Director
Fast
In The End
Performance
Medium
Rewarding
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The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.
Sergio Leone
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Film Director
Different
Important
Real
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Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.
Sergio Leone
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Film Director
Character
Half
Humans
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I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.
Sergio Leone
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Film Director
Italian
Thinking
Worry
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I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
Stephen Frears
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Film Director
Film Directing
Teach
Testimony
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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
Steven Spielberg
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Film Director
Kids
Play
Priorities
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If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
Steven Spielberg
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Film Director
Government
Believe
Destruction
Hussein
Information
Mass
Mass Destruction
Saddam
Support
Weapons
Government Believe I Believe
Bush
Policies
Reliable
Saddam Hussein
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I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.
Tim Burton
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Film Director
Age
Technology
Drawing
Harder
Internet
Day And Age
Private
Zen
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'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.
Todd Haynes
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Film Director
Cold War
Crawling
Time War Cold War
Carol
Conflicts
Shadows
Vulnerabilities
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I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'
Todd Phillips
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Film Director
Sun
Time Day Back
Thinks
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Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
Werner Herzog
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Film Director
Communication
Technology
Phones
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I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.
Wes Craven
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Film Director
Accidentally
Making Movies
Painted
Seemed
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The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.
Wes Craven
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Film Director
Emulate
Dramatically
Participate
Profoundly
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Film Director
Society
Apolitical
Deals
Film
Humanity
Political
Politics Society Political
Anchored
Any
Say
Films
Would
Necessarily
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
Alan Parker
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Film Director
Familiar
Odd
Realise
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We want to conquer the world and have 1,000 likes, 1 million likes, but at the same time, we are depressed. We are lonely, but we have 10,000 followers. We are all bipolar.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Film Director
Bipolar
Conquer
Followers
Likes
Lonely
Depressed
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The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.
Alfonso Cuaron
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Film Director
Different
Long
Past
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Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.
Andrew Dominik
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Film Director
Bits
Break
Depends
Complete
Jamming
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If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
Ang Lee
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Film Director
Movie
Giving
Successful
Would Be
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I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
Ang Lee
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Film Director
Effort
Long
Thinking
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
Baz Luhrmann
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Film Director
Acceptance
Cities
Great Things
Huge
Multicultural
Sydney
Everyone
Basis
Incredibly
Tolerant
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I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.
Bong Joon-Ho
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Film Director
Hate
Monsters
Waiting
Creature
Convention
Wait
Hour
Monster
Says
Tail
Tip
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Brian De Palma
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Film Director
Movies
Exciting
Lost Art
Pure
Storytelling
Visual Storytelling
Visual
Art Movies Me
Aspects
Develop
Making Movies
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I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
Catherine Hardwicke
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Film Director
Mind
Successful
Track
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I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.
Claire Denis
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Film Director
Cigarette
Coffee
Perfect Days
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My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.
Dario Argento
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Film Director
Daughter
Asia
Fantastic
Supportive
Thinking
In The Beginning
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Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.
David O. Russell
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Film Director
Advice
Cutting
Hair
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The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.
David O. Russell
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Film Director
Government
Military
Thinking
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To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.
David Slade
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Film Director
Planning
Work Your Will
Explain
Work Will Your
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I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.
Debra Granik
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Film Director
Carpet
Financing
Red Carpet
Scheme
Sob
Strip
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I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.
Douglas Trumbull
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Film Director
Contemporary
Tree
Tree Of Life
Life Good Respect
Greatly
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You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.
Eli Roth
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Film Director
Design
People
Writing
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I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.
Ermanno Olmi
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Film Director
Ambition
Intellectual
Looks
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I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
Errol Morris
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Film Director
Guarantees
Taken
Thinking
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That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
Fede Alvarez
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Film Director
Character
Moving
Stories
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I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Film Director
Brother
Exposure
Father
Musical
Older Brother
Theater
Comedies
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In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Frank Capra
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Film Director
Art
Courage
Eye
Legs
Liz
Mean
Profession
Tracy
Violet
Marlene
Swinging
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I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.
Frank Oz
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Film Director
Famous
Limelight
Privacy
Time Moment Mind
Miss
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