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Great Film Quotes
On chasing the film that actually lands.
This page leans into the gap between a great film and a great career, including one filmmaker's blunt point that plenty of people make one great film and never follow it up. Pair it with Impact quotes for more on lasting creative work.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.
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I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
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The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
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I want to make great films in my lifetime, and I really want to make a great film about Wonder Woman.
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I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.
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I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.
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I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.
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My favourite film is probably 'Star Wars'. I do love 'Starship Troopers', it is a great film but it's not a film I watch over and over again. Whereas 'Star Wars' I've watched over and over again all my life, and it's a film I can tolerate watching with my children.
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We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.
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The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
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I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
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