“If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.” IfsWayYearsI CanTwoDifferentFilmStyleOne WayJust One Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
“My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.” WayTogetherFilmRolesCuttingStyleDesignDirectorsCastsToneOverview Author:Jay Roach
“My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.” WayFilmUsedFireStylePersonalityProductionsMy WayFundQuestsSchemesFoxesReflectingFinancing Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud
“A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.” MightFilmStyleComfortableFilmmakerViewers Author:Alain Resnais
“The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.” IfsWayKindFilmStylePerformancesShootingEditingNeuroticFast Paced Author:Woody Allen
“The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.” ThinkingWayRealRealityFilmFunAudienceStyleParticularPeriodsSettingSettingsHaving Fun Author:Lionel Wigram
“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
“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.” MenYearsLooksHas BeensFilmSportsInterestAnswersQualityWatchesStyleMovementEssentialsMusicianEmptyUnionsAthleteHeavyTennisDullRebellionSovietMetalsDominantSoviet UnionAbsentPublic InterestHeavy MetalFacelessFinesse Author:David Foster Wallace
“I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.” ThinkingDifferentFilmIndividualStyleTvsProjectsPreferenceDifferent Styles Author:Zach Gilford
“I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.” FilmLevelsActingStylePerformancesSuitsFallenConcentrationPrimalPersonal StyleFilm Acting Author:Ron Perlman