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- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every film deserves its own unique look.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
- Guided
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm guided by my enthusiasm.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.
- Enthusiasm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is - the use of the subjective camera is an idea that's been around in movies for a long, long time. And it's an idea that was seized on very notably by Sam Fuller and by Alfred Hitchcock in two different very kind of - otherwise very different styles of filmmaking.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adore film, and I adore music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.
- Filmmaker
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.
- Enthusiasm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing - but I've always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020