#film

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#because #done #every #exactly #film

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#bit #costs #dollars #everything #film

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#i #know #out #turn #well

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#director #film #film set #find #go

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#film #greatest #me #moments #myself