“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.” WantMadeImportantBigsCareFilmDirectorsConsciousWhat's ImportantBig MovieTarantinoGood Directors Author:Melanie Laurent
“Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn’t conscious; it’s Pavlovian. (13)” WholeFilmYoungResultsTaughtTvsConsciousPopulationMagazinesOur SocietyYoung WomenCitizenryMagazine Covers Author:Victoria Moran
“There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.” PlayFilmConsciousScriptsGood Films Author:Alan Bennett
“Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?” ThinkingYearsLittlesFilmMovingActorsActingStageStyleConsciousSittingYears AgoRoundsLipsHearingTheatreSpeaking UpFilm ActorsStage Actors Author:Clint Eastwood
“I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.” IfsLooksSelfCharacterFilmWorryConsciousPerformancesWho I AmOddSelf Conscious Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, "My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?"” ThinkingLooksSelfFilmHugeConsciousEarsCamerasAppearanceUselessAngleSelf ConsciousUseless Life Author:Anna Kendrick
“Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.” ArtStoriesSchoolFilmUsedSoundDirectorsApproachConsciousInspiredMy FavoriteMoodBackgroundsPainterNovelistsStemUrbanArt SchoolStanleyHitchcockWilderMotifsBergman Author:David Lynch
“I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.” WantPersonsSelfFilmUsedGuyFightingHurtToo MuchConsciousResponsibleGreat ThingsSellingContactDamageWrestlingSequenceSelf ConsciousBeing ResponsibleExplosivesSpecialty Author:Vin Diesel
“Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"” ThinkingTryingDifferentSometimesReasonFilmStuffConsciousWow Author:Jodie Foster
“I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.” WorldFilmArtistWifeBalanceUniqueConsciousOriginalsPrivilegeBrilliantAround The WorldFilmmakerThoughtfulVery Thoughtful Author:Angelina Jolie
“So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.” WritingMeanDoeCharacterBigsSchoolRememberFilmStudyStudentsConsciousRelationComplicatedFancyThemeOverwhelmingFilm School Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.” WritingMeanMadeFilmConsciousScriptsEditsWriting Scripts Author:Josh Radnor
“When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.” FilmSpaceConsciousLeavingUncertaintyUnexpectedUnexpected Things Author:Jørgen Leth
“When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.” ThinkingWritingFirstsIdeasDoneStoriesFilmElementsConsciousExtremesVersionsTeenagerPlasticConnectingSurgeonsSimilarityPlastic Surgeons Author:Lucia Puenzo
“When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.” PeopleKnowsWantMadeBookDoneFilmDecisionTalkingAudienceConsciousEntertainmentProvokingControversyPsychoHitchcockPeople Talking Author:Sacha Gervasi
“I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.” Has BeensWantedFilmFieldsConsciousFilmmakerFilmmakingI Have LearnedDocumentaries Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it.” WritingLooksWholeFeelingsMightRunningFilmStuffParticularConsciousTheme Author:Spike Lee
“There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."” KindStatesDreamFilmRealizingAnxietyConsciousWake UpAll KindsWakingSubconsciousJust A Dream Author:David Slade
“We have our classic hood movies, right? Like "Boyz in the Hood." We have our classic conscious films like Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," or "Stand By Me." Even beyond Coogler, there are black films that are just voices. So the intention behind this ["The Land"] was to capture today's.” TodayFilmBlackVoiceBehindsLandConsciousIntentionClassicRight ThingCaptureHoodStand By Me Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. It's not as though you do that enough and then graduate - you sort of need to make a conscious decision to work in a different way.” WayNeedsDifferentEnoughDreamFilmDecisionTvsConsciousFeaturesDifferent WaysRoutineGraduatesDocumentaries Author:Louis Theroux
“I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyzed the way dreams are analyzed, and sometimes I feel that the viewers or the journalists I discuss the film with are psychoanalysts who are trying to make sense of my dreams.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingSometimesDreamFilmImaginationExpressionConsciousMake SenseJournalistSubconsciousViewers Author:Olivier Assayas
“As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.” WorldSelfFilmSidesThis WorldIndustryConsciousScaryPublicitySelf ConsciousFilm Industry Author:Ellar Coltrane
“Film is a pretty poor medium to deliver a message. I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to ask a lot of questions and hopefully you can draw your own conclusions about whatever meaning might be there or what point there is; but I was conscious of wanting to create something that for a lack of a better word had a positivity and earned that.” TryingFilmPoorConsciousPositivityConclusionHopefully Author:Matt Ross
“My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.” IfsKindFilmHouseStuffBrainListeningConsciousHanging OutMailListening To Music Author:Dominic Monaghan
“Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.” FilmEmotionalMessagesConsciousImpactAdvertisingAtmosphereEmotional LifeSubliminalSubliminal Messages Book:The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism Source: The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism