“The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.” WantKindMadeIdeasFilmCertainRoomsEditing Author:Ethan Hawke
“I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.” ThinkingKindFilmParentRoomsTerribleEverydayMotherhoodHeroismHymnsTerrible Times Author:Emma Donoghue
“I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.” WantFilmRoomsNovel Author:Emma Donoghue
“I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.” ThinkingBookFilmRoomsCases Author:Emma Donoghue
“Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.” PeopleHumansStillsBookFilmSpiritRoomsFeminismGenderTriumphHuman SpiritTaboo Author:Emma Donoghue
“If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.” IfsWholeBigsSeemsFilmRealizingRoomsMillionsNovelCuttingMinutesDyingDisappearEpicEditingClimax Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFilmRoomsAliveStageExampleMastersLike YouRealmsJust BeingTemperatureHitchcockSensational Author:Tilda Swinton
“Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.” IfsThinkingFeelsFirstsWellsLongMatterFilmCertainWalksRoomsSubjectsChangedDirectorsSkillsScriptsGenreSubject MatterGenre IsFinanciers Author:Gurinder Chadha
“The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.” MadeTogetherFilmRoomsStoresShootingIngredientsCakeShoppingEditing Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many years I was only working as novelist or writing screenplays for others to direct.” MenWritingYearsFilmThreeFatherFeltRoomsFourBrotherDirectorsHusbandDirectNovelistsFilmmakerMy HusbandScreenplaysCinematographersThree Brothers Author:Lucia Puenzo
“For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.” YearsSometimesHardReasonSeemsFilmRoomsTakenProgressSeriousSevenScreensFilmmakerProgrammingEditingDocumentariesFestivalsSeven YearsEditsDeadlineRushingTorontoWork In ProgressPremieresSundance Author:Thom Powers
“I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone else's, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.” ThinkingWantShouldFilmRoomsCuttingDirectVideoEditing Author:Joe Dante
“Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.” PeopleThinkingYearsFilmSleepPoorRoomsCompanyCarMy FriendsProductionsEightLondonHotelFestivalsHotel RoomsFilm FestivalsCannesCannes Film Festival Author:Jeremy Irvine
“There's always room. That's what the directors usually want. They want the performer to bring themselves and give what they have to give for the role. The smart ones allow that to happen because then it becomes even more organic within the performer's imagination. It becomes even more real. It's not always a given in other films, but when Gunn works, and we all work together in a collaborative way like that, it becomes a given that you bring it. It becomes a lot of fun.” WayWantGivingRealHappensTogetherFilmGivenFunImaginationRoomsRolesDirectorsSmartWorking TogetherPerformers Author:Michael Rooker