“When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.” PeopleFilmFoundLegsHospitalsInjured Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.” PeopleActionFilmGuyFightingFoundFunFourStrangeFitExerciseTrainingConanGreat Exercise Author:Rose McGowan
“In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.” WayStoriesFilmFoundHouseApproachProductionsOpeningStorytellingNonfictionAspireDecemberOpening Up Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.” MadeEndsFilmFoundDecisionDirectorsCastsThrownAuditions Author:Teresa Palmer
“Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.” WellsMeanShowsFilmFoundHorrorElementsFilmmakerGrossHorror Film Author:Sam Raimi
“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.” StillsStoriesFilmFoundObjectsElementsMatureStorytellerDocumentariesGood StoryArcsDocumentary FilmsFound Objects Author:Garth Stein
“What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.” WantYearsLongFilmThreeFoundHavensDirectProducersRight ThingThree Years Author:Grant Heslov
“In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.” YearsLastsFilmFoundEffortSawsTenAffectedFilmmakingStanding OutAstonishingArtistryAmerican FilmWorkmanship Author:Irvin Kershner
“My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.” FirstsFilmFoundFatherChangedCriticismCriticsEngineersAssistantsChanged My LifeStanfordFilm Critics Author:Roger Corman
“All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.” IfsWorldWantedFilmFoundInterestActingFantasyStageTvsTrainingConvincedBackgroundsSci FiLarger Than Life Author:Patrick Stewart
“You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.” TryingPlayFilmFoundInterestingPlayerStructureVersionsSession Author:Mike Figgis
“You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.” WritingKindChildrenRealStoriesFilmFoundNiceShort StoryDocumentariesFormatShort LoveShort FilmsDyslexicWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.” ThinkingWantFilmPassionFoundCoupleDirectMy PassionShort FilmsHiatus Author:Matt Barr
“I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!” MenYearsMadeTwoStoriesFilmThreeFoundSidesMy OwnNumbersMistakeCareersRecordsMagicInformationMetsCreatingErrorsMathematicalThree YearsCagesInfluentialAmusingTwo SidesScrapHomageBad Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.” FilmOrderFoundFourImpossibleDifficultyMissionsBritishDuesLocalsOccasionsJournalistPlanesOfficialsIronGuestsFestivalsTransportGenevaTurned OffEmbassyFilm FestivalsLifelinesDaniel Day LewisMission ImpossibleRaf Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.” WorldBigsFilmFoundUnderstandingDoctorsBlueIncludingListsEndlessRamaCrowDoctor Zhivago Author:Frederick Lenz
“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.” ThinkingBelieveCareFilmPurposeFoundMoralAudienceToo MuchTalentDangerReadyAnxietyDevilHollywoodAtheistCrowdsPhrasesWarningDislikeGrossFuriousPretextCinematicHitchcockNaggingExorcismExorcistWarning Signs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.” WorldFirstsI CanLightWantedFilmGuyFoundFeltMy OwnStudyCamerasI RealizedVideoSupposed To BeBuyingLooking BackNicheSubmergedMovie MakingGreat GuyVideo Cameras Author:Mark Wahlberg
“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsPlayStoriesFilmFoundInterestChanceStepsComedyDangerousProductsIndustryHeroCircumstancesHorrorOffersAnd LoveLove StoryWarriorNativeVillainNative AmericanIgnoredGrossMockeryThrillersFilm IndustryDead EndsDorkBrokenheartedMovies And LoveFound Dead Author:Misty Upham
“When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsPlayBeautifulFilmFoundExposedFrankPortraitsDisturbingBergman Author:Wallace Shawn
“I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.” FirstsSchoolTogetherFilmFoundSocialDifficultCommunityActingBoysStudentsInvolvedFirst TimeTheaterMassiveClassroomHobbiesOutletsElementary School Author:Holland Roden
“I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.” SchoolFilmFoundDramaUselessSuspectsFilm School Book:On directing film Source: On directing film