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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me. Some of these shots you need to think about in advance; you need to have some ideas for them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go in the order you want to do. So I haven't got a huge list of undone films or stuff that's just been abandoned forever.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of the audience absorbing the language and getting to understand it as they journey through the film. It starts off being more obscure, but you get used to it. A 'Clockwork Orange' thing. I read 'Clockwork Orange' without any vocabulary, and I got to understand the words as I went through it. I like that process. It immerses you.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
- International
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an international director.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn't mean it will be exclusively there, and I don't have any particular need to wave a flag.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have continuity people. I don't have clapper boards. I don't have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot - you just can't fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It's actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there's really nowhere to hide.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020