“In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.” WayRealFilmHappeningsSat Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.” WorldYearsFilmGrowthInvolvedTenTrainingHappeningsReflectionYears AgoImmenseDocumentariesMineralsMining Author:Ann Macbeth
“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.” PeopleKnowsHeartSometimesEnoughBigsHappensFilmDiesBlackSituationBrokenTypeLosingHappeningsCancerThings HappenViolentBreastsBlack PeopleLike SomethingBreast Cancer Author:Ava DuVernay
“I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman.” ThinkingFilmWaterHappeningsHollywoodNakedStreamsBreastsShowersScreenplaysPerky Author:Jessica Alba
“Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingFilmStuffMy OwnTerribleHappeningsAssCrawlingSyncStuff I Like Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.” ArtRealStoriesFilmFormFictionPureCreatingHappeningsTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaFilmmakingSculptureReal ThingsArt HistoryCulminationCelluloid Author:George Hickenlooper
“There are so many things happening nowadays that you've seen in films from years ago, like cloning and all of those things are actually happening now, so we can kind of visualize it a lot more, and I think our generation particularly know that we're going to be a big part of that, we we're kind of fascinated with how human beings will fare in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldYearsHumansKindBigsFilmHuman BeingsGenerationsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFascinatedOur GenerationCloning Author:Kaya Scodelario
“Just keep acting is my plan, I just want to keep going for as long as I can. I've had a fantastic time on Potter, I will be very sad to leave it because every time I look back on one of these films, every scene I watch will be forever linked to a memory of what happened that day or something that was happening around that time in my life.” WantLooksLongI CanFilmMemoriesActingWatchesForeverPlansHappenedSceneHappeningsFantasticKeep GoingLinkedPottersVery Sad Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.” IfsTryingRealityFilmSoundActingAirStageFrontsGoes OnHappeningsTricksFishing Author:Anthony Hopkins
“A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.” PeopleWorldFilmUsedNamesTakenRocksEventsHappeningsThings HappenCinemaCarrieWayne Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsMomentsHelpingHappensTogetherFilmCommunityPiecesProduceBuildingHappeningsPerformancesScriptsHelp MeTranslateLive In The MomentRelaxationExhaustionFilm SetBuilding Something Author:Jonathan Groff
“I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.” ThinkingLittlesHomeFilmBitsViewsParticularIndustryNeededLittle BitHappeningsStartingStrengthening Author:Saoirse Ronan
“If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.” IfsArtFilmFormCultureLanguageChallengesNovelHappeningsContemporaryNovelistsEssaysAccommodate Author:Don DeLillo
“I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingImportantHappensFilmStuffProcessBehindsTalkingSeeingStreetsTypeSceneCreatingHappeningsReactionsInterviewsArtworkHarassmentBehind The ScenesDocumentationStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.” WorldImportantHardFilmEasySeeingPerspectiveHappeningsAround The WorldShelterDistractedEasy To Get Author:Jennifer Connelly
“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
“And consequently, you have this rich looking film, which gives it this kind of muscular feel, deep focus, soft focus look. I'm not that great on development. I can see where things go wrong, but Beau, Carl and Mike Finch, they worked on it relentlessly. And then I would see the material and I would say, "Well, that just doesn't ring true. I don't quite know why that's happening."” KnowsGivingFeelsWellsLooksKindI CanFilmRichFocusMaterialsDevelopmentHappeningsRingsMikeFinches Author:Pierce Brosnan
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.” IfsThinkingFilmMiddleFrontsLike YouCallingDirectorsConversationHappeningsRelationCamerasMediumsExtrasNo PointLoopsCinematographersKidding Yourself Author:David Douglas
“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.” PeopleThinkingLooksMadeWholeBigsFilmProcessTermSimpleImagineEasierCostHappeningsEnglandDollarsStudiosFinanceBudgetsMovie SetsWrong Words Author:Eric Fellner
“I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.” ThinkingFilmTurnsHappeningsPressureInnovationStudiosGoldenEggsGolden Eggs Author:Neal H. Moritz
“When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.” ThinkingShowsFilmCertainImaginationDealsMassHappeningsCollectivesCapture Author:Laurie Foos
“I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.” PeopleKnowsPlayDreamFilmRolesPeriodsHappeningsIntenseDramaticStakesStressedStressed Out Author:Clea DuVall
“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.” WayFilmDesireCreativeDoorsNew YorkTelevisionTvsHappeningsIndependentSurpriseArtisticIndependent Film Author:Aja Naomi King
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.” IfsWholeFilmMovingHappeningsWestMotorOnce Upon A TimeClaudia Author:Sergio Leone
“We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room] last year, in 2014, but we still had the church pray over us , before the movie hit theatres, and the pastor was asking God to bless the film, and so we're very excited about what's happening .” YearsStillsWarLastsPastFilmChurchRoomsPrayingBlessingHappeningsShotsAskingExcitedTheatreBlessLast YearOur PastPastorAlexAsking God Author:Stephen Kendrick
“I think change is happening in ways we can't anticipate yet because the whole generation of viewers who are viewing films - film may not be the appropriate word in years to come. I'm excited about the possibility of new types of storytelling; that to me is less daunting. I'm excited by how we'll evolve with those formats thematically, tonally and in narrative.” ThinkingWayYearsMayWholeFilmGenerationsPossibilityTypeHappeningsExcitedStorytellingEvolveNarrativeAppropriateViewersAnticipateFormat Author:Simon Kinberg
“I'm such a huge fan of television and what's happening in television, right now. You are able to visit characters and visit a story, week to week, push things in a different way than you can in a film, and you are able to go deeper, simply because you have more time. I'm just excited to do that. It's always good to do new things.” WayDifferentCharacterStoriesAbleFilmWeekFansTelevisionHugeRight NowHappeningsExcitedDeeperDifferent WaysMore TimeNew Things Author:Dakota Fanning
“In television and films, you never know the fate of anything. Focusing on the present moment - not getting so caught up on what could happen - that's been my biggest focus. Everything's happening seemingly at once.” KnowsMomentsHappensFilmFocusFateTelevisionHappeningsCaughtPresent MomentCaught Up Author:Christine Evangelista
“It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.” FilmRight NowHappenings Author:Rodney King
“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.” IfsShouldIdeasFilmArtistTurnsSidesHappenedCrazyIndustryHappeningsShould HaveStudiosGood IdeasMusic IndustryBad Ideas Author:David Lynch
“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.” PeopleGivingIdeasRealSchoolFilmTroubleTeachingStudentsIndustryHappeningsFilm School Book:Interviews Source: Interviews
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.” IfsKnowsMindShowsCareFilmScienceMemoriesDarkBecomingHorrorOffersHappeningsMiseryFleshMeatVegetarianVeganFactoriesVegetarianismVeganismOur MemoriesHorror FilmSustenanceDark PlacesFactory FarmingEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer