“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.” ThinkingWayHappensFilmActingSkillsEnteringTechnicians Author:Jodie Foster
“My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.” UseFilmSkillsApproachToolsTheatre Author:Steve McFadden
“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.” HardWantedFilmYoungPurposeWalksClearWalkingDirectorsSkillsTheaterVictimSticksTortureHard TimesKillersBrutalYoung WomenSpineCreeksCredentialsTrackingMutilation Author:Roger Ebert
“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.” Has BeensCountryEarthAmericaFilmEffortSkillsAreasInstitutionsPatientPhotographerSavedLandscapePreservesTimelessFortitudeMonumentVisionariesForesightEnvironmentalistNature BeautyRenownedScenicAmerican Landscape Author:Ansel Adams
“One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.” IfsWayWantFilmMovingYoungUnderstandingActingCareersStageSkillsEssentialsTrainingBasesTechniquePursueAcquireLongevityYoung Women Author:Kathleen Turner
“Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.” PeopleHelpingFilmYoungPowerfulIssuesCommunicationSkillsToolsTheaterStorytellingOur TimeCollaborationTranslateImproving Author:Kevin Spacey
“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsEndsWould BeFilmTurnsActorsKnowingWonderfulParticularSkillsProjectsScriptsLuxuryTomsCruiseGreat Film Author:Jonny Lee Miller
“In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.” PeopleWayBigsFilmDirectorsSkillsIndependentScriptsBrilliantProducersDepartmentSurroundSmarterSurround YourselfIndependent Film Author:David Heyman
“Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.” WritingHas BeensArtSaidBookFilmNovelSeaSkillsArt IsSeriesCompromiseCraftsSwimmingBathsRelentlessAdapting Author:William Boyd
“Your first film is always your best film, in a way. There's something about your first film that you never ever get back to, but you should always try. It's that slight sense of not knowing what you're doing, because the technical skills you learn - especially if you have a film that works, that has some kind of success - are beguiling. The temptation is to use them again, and they're not necessarily good storytelling techniques.” IfsWayShouldTryingFirstsKindUseFilmKnowingSkillsTechniqueStorytellingTemptationGet BackNot KnowingBest FilmTechnical SkillsGood Storytelling Author:Danny Boyle
“My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.” NeedsYearsMindRealFilmActingSkillsProjectsStartingProductionsReal LifeBackgroundsRelatedFilm Production Author:Tommy Wiseau
“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
“I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.” WayArtDoneMightFilmStuffBehindsHellModernCoupleHonorDramaHorrorSkillsDegreesCamerasTradeUniversityTheatreLocalsVideoFilmmakerInstantHorror FilmAlberta Author:Karen Walton
“Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a huge amount of skill involved, I don't know how much I'm giving away here. I feel like that guy on Fox, giving away the magicians' tricks. It's not rocket science, being an executive producer of a film.” KnowsGivingFeelsMeanFilmGuyDifficultKnow HowHugeAmountInvolvedSkillsTricksProducersExecutivesFoxesMagicianRocketsThat GuyRocket Science Author:Craig Ferguson
“The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right choice for the next film. You don't know what the outcome is gonna be, there's always potential to find length to your career as well. Now I'm so far from any other job skills that if I don't make movies.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsJobsFilmChoicesNextCareersSkillsPressureOutcomesLengthRight ChoicesMake The Right Choice Author:Cary Fukunaga
“I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.” ThinkingTwoDifferentFilmCareersSkillsConnectionsMediumsJournalism Author:Greg Kinnear
“One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.” YearsReasonFilmMotherCareersProudSkills Author:Lena Dunham
“With 'Hail, Caesar!' it was about all the skill sets I had to learn, but each movie requires a different way of working. You're a piece in a new world, and there is always a difficult part within that world. For me, it's not consistent from movie-to-movie, each film has a central challenge.” WorldWayDifferentFilmDifficultChallengesPiecesSkillsDifferent WaysConsistentNew WorldHail Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.” KindArtBookFactsLightFilmCertainRichChildhoodInformationFoolSkillsGoldCaughtDevelopingGatheringPricelessScrapPitifulArt HistoryArrangingBohemianNuggetsMagpies Book:The Moor's last sigh Source: The Moor's last sigh