“I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.” AbleFilmSweetSpotsVolunteerControversialEdgy Author:Romany Malco
“I'm not meant to run around trees. I can't throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.” LittlesI CanRunningFilmAirTreeSweetArmsBoringCupsTeaTwistedQuirkyIrritatingCups Of Tea Author:Emraan Hashmi
“There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.” KindFilmFunDarkSweetBrotherAspireHeartfeltColorfulEmulateCoen Brothers Author:Sam Huntington
“I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"” KnowsEndsAmericaFilmGuyGirlEvilInterestingHappenedSubjectsSweetSceneScriptsEightTendenciesThemeUnclesThis GuyVery InterestingDilemmaThis GirlVery Sweet Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.” ThinkingWayShouldStoriesFilmEnergyFunGoalChanceSimpleVisionFocusSweetDirectorsWasteRaisesSeekingSpotsHaving FunApprovalChasingFundingGood StoryCollaboratorsGood FilmsPleasing Everyone Author:Jennifer Phang
“I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.” ImportantStoriesUseFilmCultureSoundSweetDimensionsSubtlety Author:Mira Nair
“I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.” IfsEndsFilmGamesNamesPerfectLevelsSweetBalanceImportanceCriticalSpotsHopefullySeatsThe End Of The DayPerfect Balance Author:Will Packer
“I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.” FeelsMadeFilmJoySoundAudienceLaughingComedyImagineSweetListeningHorrorDirectorsLaughterSittingTheaterScreamHorror Film Author:Leigh Whannell
“Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.” ThinkingMenDoneFilmActorsHonestSweetAmountProudDirectorsElementsShotsAdultsLovelySnowCakeAccurateTerrificHomeworkHonest ManGood Directors Author:Alan Rickman
“I was at a Madonna show many, many years ago and I was in the sweet spot and she came out and I mean it was the best part of the show. And I was shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. And I'm like, "God, I must have shot a hundred pictures have I not run out of film?" And I opened the back of my camera and there was no film in there. So that happened to me only once.” YearsMeanShowsRunningFilmHappenedSweetHundredShotsYears AgoCamerasSpotsShooting Author:Danny Clinch
“I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.” WayKindI CanFilmSweetOld FashionedSuperhero Author:William Friedkin
“My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too shy. To see her perform and come on stage and feel comfortable, you know, she has talent - that was very touching, very moving, for me. She has a really beautiful sound and voice. She's a young girl still, 26, and innocent. She was kind of sheltered.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingFeelsKindStillsBeautifulFilmMovingYoungGirlBeliefSoundVoiceCareersKnow HowStageTalentSweetComfortableDaughterLovelyInnocentTouchedShyMy DaughterTouchingSweet LoveReally BeautifulVery MovingLovely Girl Author:Robert Davi
“I had always loved horror films, so I wanted to do something in the horror genre but wanted it to be sweet and charming at the same time. Because there's a difference between watching horror, where you can leave it behind, and writing horror, where you have to live in it for months and months at a time.” WritingFilmSweetHorrorCharmingHorror Film Author:Bryan Fuller
“I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a girly film. I wanted to make something sweet, pink. With a boy it was too dramatic and too heavy. I had a lot of pleasure with the boys in In the House, I said, "This time I will do a film with girls."” BeautifulFilmGirlHousePleasureBoysSweetDramaticGirlyYoung And Beautiful Author:Francois Ozon
“We got together, and Bruce Willis was just a sweet animal, a sweetheart. I tell you, right down to the core he's just a real professional, a real gentleman, and I must say I'm so very happy for him that he's got a heck of a good film.” RealTogetherFilmAnimalSweetGentlemanVery HappySweetheart Author:Ernest Borgnine
“The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.” WayFeelsMadeSaidCareFilmCertainNamesVoiceHappenedSweetRainAccidentsFedsTake MeThey SaidVeinsPillsSalesmanRaindropsSweet Voice Author:Denis Johnson