“Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.” IdeasFilmCoursesTeacherCuttingDisciplineSacredBarsCompositionSplendidAlteredPupilsComposing Book:National Music: And Other Essays Source: National Music: And Other Essays
“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.” WorldNeedsYearsPlayShowsAbleFilmGuyHalfMorningAudienceNiceWeekBrotherMonthsDisciplineInvolvedSceneToolsTheaterEightBagsRehearsalYour Brother Author:William Sadler
“Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.” FilmArtistSupportDesignDisciplineDemandCommunicateComposerIntegratingSubordinatesJerry Author:Jerry Goldsmith
“In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.” WellsFilmArtistOrderActorsDisciplineTheaterTackling Author:Val Kilmer
“Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.” ThinkingMindDifferentCharacterFilmFormDifferencesActingTvsTypeDisciplinePeriodsDramaTheaterIndependentSizeStudiosActiveContemporaryGenreIndependent Film Author:Luke Evans
“The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.” FilmCertainStageDisciplineStandardsUltimateCritics Author:Jack Nicholson
“In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic.” WritingWellsMeanPersonsAbleFilmCertainDisciplineSixAreasFunctionVery GoodBudgetsTunnelsGood Discipline Author:Woody Allen
“Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.” WritingFilmTvsDisciplineInvolvedValuableCommodity Author:Ricky Gervais
“Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.” FilmAudienceDisciplineMembersEditorsSurrogates Author:Jay Cassidy
“Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.” IfsFeelsPersonsDifferentFilmAnimalAliveMaterialsDisciplineEssenceTheaterShootingRight PersonMiningExecutingDifferent AnimalsHoning Author:Clive Owen
“The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.” PeopleTryingEndsTogetherFilmDisciplineTheater Author:Clive Owen
“At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting.” ThinkingHeartKindDifferentFilmMovingHappenedTalentTelevisionDisciplineHappeningsExcitingTheaterFilm And TelevisionConvergence Author:Colin Callender
“Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.” KnowsWayWantNeedsLittlesFilmBitsLinesToo MuchFocusTelevisionDisciplineLittle BitDiscoveryMarkPaceFactoriesRelaxedNurturing Author:Shannyn Sossamon
“Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.” ImportantFilmNovelDisciplineEngagedStoryteller Author:Rebecca Miller
“Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.” EndsFilmSpaceMiddleTelevisionDisciplineAuthorityMediumsBeginning Middle And End Author:Steven Knight
“I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and really different kinds of work. It's more along the same continuum, for me.” ThinkingKindDifferentFilmActingDisciplineDifferent Kinds Author:Zoe Kazan
“Live theatre is great. I loved doing the League live because you get that element of spontaneity, but then when I'm doing live I start to crave the precision of filming. It's a different discipline; it's like a scalpel and you're very precise suddenly. It's scary as well because you think this is it, this is my one go at making it if I can the best it can be, because this is how it's going to be remembered and rendered and left on this film indelibly. And people are going to look back on this and that's that.” PeopleThinkingDifferentFilmDisciplineScaryTheatreLeagueSpontaneity Author:Reece Shearsmith
“Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it's not the theatre, it's not done over again. It's done in bits and pieces. Things are happening which you can't get again. I forbid anyone to say "Cut", the soundman, the operator, or whatever.” BookDifferentDoneFilmCuttingDisciplineTheatreBits And Pieces Author:Nicolas Roeg
“Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration with an architect, to combine those aspects of color - I'm talking about color becoming a form within the building - that is a very different approach. I love contemporary architecture, which makes collaboration more interesting-and you have to be able to collaborate. It's like making a film, in a way: Everyone is a part of the team.” DifferentFilmMovingTeamBuildingDisciplineEnvironmentalArchitectureCollaborationArchitect Author:Keith Sonnier
“Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film director or as an artist. Invariably, they'd rather be known as a film director, because that's what they are. But there's not really a system of independent distribution anymore that allows for that, and so the art world has kind of become all-enveloping. It's absorbed all of these disciplines that don't have a home anymore.” WorldKindArtHomeFilmArtistDisciplineIndependent Author:Chris Kraus
“When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.” WritingMindImportantFilmNovelWonderfulDisciplineMarriedCrisisPainterFilmmakerRevelationsStorytellerGet Money Author:Rebecca Miller
“One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.” AbleFilmHappenedIdentityDisciplineThirdsFourth Author:George Lucas