Quotes About Film

Having anything to do with a hit film is great. Even if you're a third assistant to the director or second to the editor, if the film does well, every technician, every actor benefits from it.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

I liked Rajamouli's 'Eega.' He is a great technician, and I would be happy to get a chance to work with him.

Every industry has got its distinct identity. The Malayalam film industry is right up there with some of the greatest content, artistes and technicians.

I think actors get paid a lot and technicians don't get paid enough and I think that it should change because a good film, which is like a complete package, needs every single member of that team. I think we need to pay them more.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

The core to what makes Fincher really interesting - all the technique and all that, that is not in the center even if it's a big big part - what is in the center is the characters, and he really is interested in that.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

Growth is a sub-conscious activity, and I learnt a lot in this course, and I'm always open to learning and grasping new things from people. I'm learning with every film, and my confidence levels and technique is also getting better with each film.

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

There was a technique to making a musical. It took a long time for the studios to learn it, and it was very complicated.

You rely on technique, that playbook and what you saw on film, you can do whatever it takes to win a game.

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

Being an actor in TV or movies is different. A film or TV actor, if put in theatre, won't know certain dimensions, while a theatre actor won't know certain things when he comes before the camera. So I think a film actor can learn emoting from this theatre counterpart, while the theatre actor can learn about camera techniques from the film actor.

A producer is bound to market his product with innovative gimmicks and quirky selling techniques, but distributors and exhibitors should not fall prey to it. Don't buy a film for exorbitant price and crib about losses post the film's release.

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.