James Mangold Quotes

#1. Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

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#2. A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

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#3. We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

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#4. We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

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#5. I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

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#6. There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

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#7. Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

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#8. I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

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#9. Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

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#10. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

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#11. The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

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#12. One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

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#13. My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

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#14. I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

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#15. The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

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#16. What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

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#17. The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

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#18. I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

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#19. The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

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#20. If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

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#21. Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

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