Mark Romanek Quotes

#1. I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.

Joe R. Lansdale

#2. I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

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#3. All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

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#4. I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

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#5. The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Aldo Leopold

#6. If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

Daniel Boulud

#7. Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

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#8. I learned that when you're lucky enough to be surrounded by such talented people that you really become more of an orchestrator of this talent - you're just trying to harmonise everyone's contributions.

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#9. Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

Ralph Marston

#11. And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

Jeff Lindsay

#12. Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

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#13. It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Gao Xingjian

#14. I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.

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#15. I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

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#16. The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.

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#17. No Help of that
There is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space. And even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it We will know it more that ever. There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that place.

Charles Bukowski

#18. I have these ideas that people go 'Oh, that's cool. I'd pay to see it, but I'm not gonna give you $25 million.'

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#19. I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.

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#20. From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.

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#21. If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

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#22. I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

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#23. His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like.

Rachel Caine

#24. I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.

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#25. Word spread through the camp like a prairie

Chet Cunningham

#26. Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break.

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#27. In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

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