- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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