“You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.” ThinkingWayNeedsLittlesPhilosophyFilmSoundDirectAskingResponsePompous Author:Michel Gondry
“I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film” KnowsBelieveMeanFilmSoundMajorsConcernUniversalListsSelectJulyMake BelieveGrandioseSchindlerSchindler's List Author:Embeth Davidtz
“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.” IfsThinkingLooksDifferentBeautifulFilmActorsSoundIndustryAgingAcceptedFortyPrimeBeautiful ThingsFilm Industry Author:Michiel Huisman
“It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.” WantImportantShowsMightFilmNightSoundLowsShotsOddIllumination Author:David Heyman
“That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.” FilmFightingSoundFourWeekStupidMonthsSceneSixSpendingSix MonthsPms Author:Tom Sturridge
“I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.” FilmSoundDesignSound Design Author:Christopher Nolan
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?” FirstsBelieveKindWould BeFilmI BelieveSoundSawsAnd LoveI Believe InValuableAwfulNaiveLovelinessSound Of MusicMusic And Love Author:Julie Andrews
“This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.” CharacterFilmSoundCommonWiseAdviceTradition Author:Omar Sharif
“When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.” FeelsKindFilmSoundBrainParticularPeriodsSittingDown AndMelodySurgerySitting DownBrain Surgery Author:Clint Eastwood
“A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.” KnowsNeedsCharacterFilmSoundKnow HowSceneStructureScriptsDramaticGoing To WorkLiving ThingsScreenplaysGuidelines Author:Jose Padilha
“We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.” YearsShowsFilmGamesSoundMissingTelevisionProjectsCreatingTwentiesVideoPassingPassingsBobSixtyShockedSeventiesTelevision ShowsGreat FriendSaddenedCollaboratingFilm And Television Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.” LooksKidsFilmSoundHorrorPeacefulBoredFrightenedScreamVacuumsCleanersHorror FilmRoller CoasterCoastersKids LoveRollercoaster Book:Dad Is Fat Source: Dad Is Fat
“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.” IfsWould BeBeautifulFilmMovingTurnsSoundStrangePaintingWindUniqueMouthsMoodLayersPortraitsCapturedMona LisaCelluloid Author:David Lynch
“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
“In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.” WayFilmSoundViewsTheaterRemainsFilmmakerMovie TheaterPristine Author:Ridley Scott
“Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.” ThinkingKnowsArtDifferentFactsFilmFormSoundSilentDialogueSilent Films Author:Peter Weir