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“But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.”

Thinking Film Sophisticated Cinematic

Author:Mike Leigh

“I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.”

Thinking Film Actors Obvious Good Actors Perfectly Good

Author:Mike Leigh

“I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Film Trouble Studios

Author:Richard Linklater

“I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.”

Thinking Film Influence Very Inspiring

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.”

Thinking Film Certain Acting Television Down And More Time Slow Down Film And Television

Author:Thomas McDonell

“In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.”

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Author:Ann Macbeth

“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?”

Thinking Wells Running Film Used Effects Television Industry Used To Be Digital Visionaries Film And Television Television Industry

Author:Bill Mumy

“I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.”

Thinking Different Film Form Novel Prose Graphic Graphic Novels

Author:Denise Mina

“I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.”

Thinking Film Simple Horror Horror Film

Author:Glen Mazzara

“I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.”

Thinking Feels Shows Film

Author:Merritt Wever

“I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.”

Thinking Book Character Film Enjoy Teenager Fringe Loner

Author:Markus Zusak

“I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.”

Thinking Wells Done Film Used Lines Television Crosses Scripts Drawing Intriguing Well Done Film And Television

Author:Natalie Zea

“Film, I think, is my medium.”

Thinking Film Mediums

Author:Pia Zadora

“I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.”

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Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.”

Thinking Firsts Film Next Given Watches Scene Moved Etc

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.”

Thinking Stills Done Film Hollywood Actresses Hollywood Films

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.”

People Thinking Real Together Film Dies Watches Groups Horror Elements Horror Film Really Awesome

Author:Elisha

“To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.”

Thinking World Way Humans Ends Film Wish Waiting Rooms Watches Drama Universal Intense Waiting Rooms

Author:Mick LaSalle

“I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.”

Thinking Has Beens Film Form My Own Walks Materials Cameras Scripts Cinema My Own Life

Author:Jonas Mekas

“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.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Philosophy Film Sound Direct Asking Response Pompous

Author:Michel Gondry

“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.”

Thinking Trying Reality Film Form Term One Thing Achieve Creation Designer

Author:Ken Adam

“I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.”

Thinking Littles Stills Film Quality Highest Argument Available Nostalgia Mediums Get Better Digital Capture Ghetto

Author:Rian Johnson

“I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.”

People Thinking Want Kind Made Book Film Interesting Debate

Author:Daniel Handler

“I've slogged like crazy to get where I am. And those who think it's just my body that got me where I am, they should take a look at the others who have rushed in after me. They haven't gone beyond their first feverish film.”

Thinking Should Firsts Looks Body Film Gone Crazy Havens

Author:Mallika Sherawat

“If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.”

Ifs Thinking Film Musical

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.”

Thinking Heart Eye Film Industry Wide Really Mean Open Heart Wide Eyes

Author:Caleb Landry Jones

“I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Film Missing Tvs Singing Ideals Dancing Musical Casts Singing And Dancing

Author:Laura Osnes

“I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.”

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Author:Dileep Rao

“I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.”

Thinking Stories Action Film Involved Going To Work Action Films Good Actions

Author:Jan de Bont

“Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.”

Thinking Years Done Film Blue Productions Designer Thunder

Author:John Badham

“I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.”

Thinking Enough Film Actors Asks Ask Me Movie Disappointed Filmmaking Bros Warner Bros

Author:Richard Donner

“It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?”

Thinking Book Different Done Film Release Comic Comic Book Adaptation Film Adaptations

Author:Richard Donner

“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Happens Film Choices Deals Careers Clear Balance

Author:Lukas Haas

“I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.”

Thinking Film Political Needed Tone Sharpness Robocop

Author:Jose Padilha

“You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.”

People Thinking Film

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.”

Thinking World Happens Film Opportunity Stuff Crazy Driving Filmmaker Make It Happen Drive Me Crazy

Author:Lucy Walker

“When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.”

Thinking Film Levels Dying Ghost Superficial Insects Zombie Fear Of Dying

Author:Boaz Lavie

“Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“I think there is also a certain degree of expectation that's set up by trailers, where even if you know what's going to happen in parts of the film based on the trailer, you almost anticipate and look forward to those moments based on having seen the trailer.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Moments Happens Film Certain Degrees Expectations Anticipate Trailers

Author:Duncan Jones

“You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.”

Thinking Film Acting Picks Cameras Film Acting

Author:Ruth Wilson

“When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.”

Thinking Trying Persons Jobs Film Acting Attention New York Bigger Load Lenses Paparazzi Taking Pictures

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.”

Thinking Way Book Film Term Projects Photographer Narrative Filmmaker

Author:Alec Soth

“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.”

“Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.”

Thinking Would Be Age Film Interesting Comfort Comfortable Appeals Instant Girlfriend Old Girlfriend

Author:Bill Murray

“I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.”

Thinking Feels Play Kids Film Easier Structure Feel Better Film History

Author:Zoe Kazan

“It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.”

Thinking Years Bigs Film Christ Cry Seven Seven Years Sweating Overnight Success

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.”

People Thinking Way Might Film Force Social Audience Influence Approach Exposed Feeding Desirable Commentary Influencing People Soapbox

Author:Walter Koenig

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