“Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.” WorldTwoDifferentFilmPoliticalGamesStruggleSurvivalLaborFeaturesFilmmakingLocksRollingBullshitExhaustingDifferent WorldsPolitical GamesStruggle For SurvivalTwo Different Worlds Author:George Hickenlooper
“People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.” PeopleKindFilmCuttingSurvivalEdgesCutting Edge Author:Wes Craven
“The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they are prehistoric creatures, they are no longer around and that makes them magical and makes us feel quite emotional, because we know that those creatures did not survive in the long run, so there's poignancy in their fight for survival.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsLongRunningBeautifulFilmFightingEmotionalCreaturesMessagesSurvivalAppealsLong RunsBeautiful ThingsPrehistoricPoignancy Author:John Leguizamo
“If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.” ThinkingChildrenBookFilmJoyLiteratureLove IsAnimalStruggleBehaviorSurvivalBetrayalTragicHuman BehaviorJunglePower Struggle Author:Ben Kingsley
“I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, "Thank you! Thank you, I love your films!" And it's people who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, who like my films, and I like that.” PeopleKindFilmAudienceCuttingSecurityLove YouSurvivalMeetingsLeapSaying Thank YouCutting Edge Author:Wes Craven
“It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.” PeopleDifferentFilmDifficultTermInterestingSituationSurvivalTensionDifferent ThingsDifficult Situations Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.” MenMadeIdeasSelfFilmBornFiveDespairAmbitionSurvivalAccountsFrustrationCentsNinetyBank AccountsFattening Author:Samuel Fuller
“When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.” ImportantEndsAbleFilmNextSurvivalImportant ThingsDesperateMakers Author:George Lucas