Jonathan Glazer Quotes

#1. I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Glazer

#2. You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

Jonathan Glazer

#3. The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

Maya Angelou

#4. I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

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#5. When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#6. He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them.

Karen Ann Wirtz

#7. I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Jonathan Glazer

#8. I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

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#9. I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

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#10. When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

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#11. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Jonathan Glazer

#13. I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

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#14. I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

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#15. I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

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#16. When one dream dies we replace it with another.

Oli Anderson

#17. Tell me why you're so hard to forget. Don't remind me, I'm not over it. Tell me why, I can't seem to face the truth, I'm just a little too not over you.

David Archuleta

#18. I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

Jonathan Glazer