- Exploded
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never done anything but my very best work for anyone, and to do this and retain my first fine enthusiasm over a period of thirty years has required a rather special set of working conditions.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020