#mma

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#being #certainly #code #far #filmmaker

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable. ↗

— Howard Coble

#commanders #congress #debate #i #iraqi

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#approach #around #attention #capture #choose

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#been #commandments #moral #never #replaced

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#because #bring #dad #editing #film

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#doing #film #filmmakers #financed #get

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#commanding #expression #most #silence #well-timed

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#back #brings #dilemma #essentially #every

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well. ↗

— Cameron Crowe

#build #characters #feel #filmmakers #formulaic

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. ↗

— John Cusack

#affair #chemistry #consummate #get #good