“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.” ShouldYearsArtFilmBattleViciousFundingAustralianAustralian Films Author:Ann Macbeth
“Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.” KidsFilmPlanetsBattleApesDeep Meaning Author:J. Lee Thompson
“Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.” FilmWinningSpeakAnswersNovelEasierBattleCooksKitchenBossSolitaryDictatorCooks In The Kitchen Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.” IfsWritingImportantFilmFightingNextBattleImportant ThingsCastsCastingUphill Battles Author:Clint Eastwood
“Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.” WorldHumansWarFilmClassCitizensInvolvedBattleHollywoodVictimThreatMonstersImpulseGenreWar Of The WorldsExpertsTensionCapturePanicIndispensableInvasionDefendersMomentaryDemiseDisposableSecond Class Citizens Author:Andrew Tudor
“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.” PeopleWayKindArtMadeMatterFilmDoubtObjectsMaterialsSceneBattleBasesCamerasNo Matter WhatArguingGenuineJournalismFilmmakerMovieAntiwarMotion PicturesStardom Author:Renata Adler
“Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.” YearsLastsFilmBattleAdultsCreditExpectedArtisticQuartersGlobesOscars Author:Alexander Payne
“If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.” IfsFilmFightingBattleCastsUphill Battles Author:Clint Eastwood
“I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.” BigsFilmEnergyInterestCompanyBattlePicksProductionsFeaturesJerry Author:James Cameron
“Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.” FilmSpecialBattleAccomplishmentDistribution Author:Matthew Bonifacio
“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.” ArtFilmMilitaryBattleCinematography Book:Notes on the Cinematograph Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.” KindDoeEndsMatterFilmUnderstandingBattlePicksHandleIrrelevant Author:Peter Berg
“Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.” FirstsBeautifulFilmLawBattleConstantCastsMurphy Author:Katie Aselton
“Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.” IfsHumansFilmProcessForgetAudienceTroublePeriodsBattleRelationHonestlyStorytellingEngagingHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsIntrigued Author:Ridley Scott
“I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.” FirstsHandsFilmBattleIndependentForestsAfrican AmericanRapperBrooklynIndependent Film Author:Nia Long
“There's a pretty epic battle "Part 2" of Twilight. It's really involved and it took us a few weeks to film it, because there was so many of us and it was such a large, massive war. I think they're really gonna love that. I feel like we've been working up to this the whole series and there was a bit of confrontation, but you never really got to see all the vampires go full force.” ThinkingFeelsWarWholeFilmForceBitsWeekInvolvedBattleSeriesVampireMassiveTwilightEpicConfrontationEpic Battle Author:Ashley Greene
“Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.” ShouldFilmYoungDealsBattleStructureMakers Author:Martin Scorsese
“By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.” WellsSoulActionFilmMemoriesBattleHungerInequalityEnduranceDocumentariesNobilityBrutalityOur MemoriesStarvationDeprivation Author:Theodore Bikel