#film

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#anything #bit #doing #every #every time

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#day #every #film #i #makes

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#any #avoid #challenge #cliche #few

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#film #first #huge #i #i think

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. ↗

— David Mamet

#completely #dialogue #film #good #good film

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#attempt #express #film #polar

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#disney #film #himself #kind #last

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#clause #delightful #film #i #kind

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#academy awards #awards #been #compromised #count