Christine Vachon Quotes

#1. The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

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#2. There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

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#3. Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling ... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

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#4. I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

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#5. When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.

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#6. It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

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#7. My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

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#8. I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.

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#9. Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

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#10. In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

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#11. There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.

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#12. I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

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#13. I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.

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#14. Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

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