Film Quotes - Page 77

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically, so nothing was synced and nothing was slated.

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.

When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested in films, and so I just kept asking her if I could come around.

Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.

A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

There [in Allied] were things that were written that were cut, and things that were shot that were cut, but if the film works, they are erased from memory.

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

The werewolf film is a strange thing.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.