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1174 Filmmaker Quotes

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

Just Kids Survive Three
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

Anything Audience Believe Effective
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If you can’t afford established people, get young hungry ones and train them. It pays off eventually.

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To move forward as a continent, as Africans, we need to teach people to question things.

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The African culture is built on stories

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Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

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Failure is an essential part of film making, but you will never understand that if you don’t get started.

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If we have to go forward, then we have to learn to share.

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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
Any Literally Me Medium
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

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Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.

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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

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I've never done Twitter.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Creature I Love Love Movies
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.

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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
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