“I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.” PeopleFeelsI CanEnoughHelpingStoriesInspirationFilmRichSeeingGroupsShareLandGratitudeWasteDevilThirdsLive LifeAweCourageousPlaygroundsWaste Land Author:Lucy Walker
“I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.” RealityHappensFilmFacesToo MuchLandWasteHardestWorriedTitlesCrashHardest ThingExtremityDownersWaste Land Author:Lucy Walker
“I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.” FilmLandDiariesForeign Lands Author:Matthew McConaughey
“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.” IfsEarthFilmCertainAnimalLandPlanetsHollywoodWelcomeCoastCagesNever QuitVisitingPlanet EarthZoos Author:Elinor Glyn
“I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.” WorldKindDifferentFilmLandTvsTheatreDifferent Experiences Author:T. J. Thyne
“As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.” ThinkingFilmWishLinesHappenedLandAll Time Author:Richard Ayoade
“When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.” KnowsCountryFilmLanguagePlayerLandStrangeTvsLike YouCoupleStrangerVisitingForeign CountriesAbnormalityStranger In A Strange Land Author:Anthony Heald
“The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.” PeopleIfsWorldWayKidsFilmBornGenerationsLandTalentMomDadProveBeltsMom And DadLead InCanonHelenDamesScorseseProving YourselfRaw Talent Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.” FilmAudienceLandNervous Author:Naomi Watts
“America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.” IfsThinkingFactsKidsAmericaFilmBornLandNeededGet AwayAmerican MovieAmerican FilmForeign Lands Author:Andrew Garfield
“I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.” MenFeelsBelieveRealFilmHateGirlLanguageAudienceLandPeriodsSceneI HateDon't BelieveSexyContemporaryPlentyCorsets Author:Mike Leigh
“How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.” IfsKnowsShouldTryingLongStillsFilmSleepWatchesLandCommittedTricksCinemaSocialist Author:David Bennun
“I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.” DoneHelpingProblemSeemsLastsFilmNamesActingCuttingLandMusic IsExpectedShouldersScoreEtcTimingBad ActingBad Timing Author:Trevor Rabin
“I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.” FilmGrowing UpGrowingFansLandHugeFavouriteAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.” PeopleHumansHappensFilmGuyBlackNaturalCommonWrittenLandDadLuckInteractionBad Luck Author:Erykah Badu
“If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.” IfsMenI CanSoulFilmViewsLandStrangeStrangerPoint Of ViewMy SoulAliensSurroundStranger In A Strange Land Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“'Tampopo' is a deeply odd film about Japan, ramen noodles, love and sex. It made me very hungry and desperate to travel to Japan. It started my love affair with this amazing country, its culture, its food, its cinema and made me buy my first ticket to the land of the rising sun.” FirstsMadeCountryFilmCultureSexSunLandAffairHungryOddCinemaRisingDesperateJapanTicketsLove AffairNoodlesRamen Author:Jamie Cullum
“I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ["The Land" is] a cautionary tale. It's not the brightest or best ending to a film when you're telling a cautionary tale about four kids, kids who are killing each other, kids who are products of the streets.” PeopleYearsStoriesKidsFilmCertainThreeDoubtFourStreetsLandProductsProjectsCreatingKillingTalesPushingThree YearsPitchingKilling Each OtherPushing ItCautionary Tales Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“We have our classic hood movies, right? Like "Boyz in the Hood." We have our classic conscious films like Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," or "Stand By Me." Even beyond Coogler, there are black films that are just voices. So the intention behind this ["The Land"] was to capture today's.” TodayFilmBlackVoiceBehindsLandConsciousIntentionClassicRight ThingCaptureHoodStand By Me Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansStillsCharacterAbleWantedFilmBlackHuman BeingsDecisionStruggleEnvironmentFocusLandIndependentConnectedBlack PeopleUrbanAssociatesIndependent FilmAll BlackUrban Environment Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.” PeopleWellsFilmBlackWhitePoorLandBlack PeopleLatino Author:Steven Caple Jr.