“People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.” PeopleMeanShowsCertainWrittenNew YorkCommunicationShotsDialogueAccurateStink Author:Dick Wolf
“I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.” I CanBookBigsSeeingNew YorkSixShotsListsPublishersNew York TimesBookstoresSupermarketsAllure Author:Barry Eisler
“In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.” WantedFilmNamesRolesNew YorkLateShotsCamerasBackgroundsThirtySeventiesEightyWoodyScorseseWoody Allen Movie Author:Tobin Bell
“New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.” CharacterFilmActorsCitiesNew YorkShotsCharacter Actors Author:Jeffrey Wright
“I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.” IfsI CanIdeasHomeFilmCausesMy OwnNumbersEnvironmentNew YorkTearsShotsBrilliantHotelSymptomsNeuroticBrilliant IdeasTulsa Author:Woody Allen
“Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.” FirstsEndsMomentsFilmVisionSawsNew YorkShotsExtraordinaryCome UpTheatreAll TimeReleaseObsessedThat MomentFavouriteNunCapitolHitchcockVistasVertigo Author:Martin Scorsese
“I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me.” IfsMindLooksCareCitiesSeeingStreetsNew YorkSceneShotsCamerasBotherExtrasControlledNew York CityI Love New YorkCity Streets Author:Greta Gerwig
“Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film.” MadeEndsFilmCitiesCompanyNew YorkCollegeShotsCapacityVideoNovelistsMuseumsNew York CityDocumentariesVocabularyEdited Author:Jon Spaihts
“I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'” ActorsNew YorkShotsTradeCliche Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross
“My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.” YearsFirstsDoneFilmBlackSuccessfulNew YorkHairShotsWesternReleaseCaliforniaFeaturesCashMexicoBroadwayJaneSantaGigsJohnsonKirkGunfightsSanta FeRaf Author:Keith Carradine