Matthijs Van Quotes

#1. and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression.

Karen White

#2. I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

Doug Benson

#3. Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#4. All things are connected. There is no separation, except in the mind, which is most powerful, after reality.

Nancy LaRonda Johnson

#5. Working on a set and working with actors, that's all the same. The moment you're doing it and you're in the moment, you don't have time to think about it. You just have to make it as good as you possibly can on the moment.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#6. Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#7. Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#8. Seen clearly, life without hope is hell, but Hell without fear is a fairground attraction.

Matthijs Van Boxsel

#9. For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all the ingredients together, you can never oversee what it's gonna taste exactly. So while you're doing that, you're tasting.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#10. There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. I just hate digital. Looks ugly. Even if you were to shoot this anamorphic, which looks great, I just don't like it, it feels like video.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#12. Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#13. While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#14. People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half of the talking.

William R. Miller

#15. As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

#16. But how many times can you upset someone and still return to normal? Isn't there a point when the person gives up on you?

Maria V. Snyder