The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.
Interpretation
Filmmaking can be unpredictable, but having an enthusiastic team makes the process much smoother.
This quote emphasizes the importance of enthusiasm and teamwork in the filmmaking process. Despite the inevitable chaos that comes from creating a film, having a passionate and committed cast can help navigate challenges and create a successful project. The energy and positivity of the cast can be the foundation that allows the entire production to thrive, making their involvement crucial for overcoming obstacles and achieving a cohesive final product.
In practice
During a film festival speech, you might quote this to highlight the importance of teamwork in cinema.
Making a film is hard because you're not dealing with the intangible. When you're writing, it's perfect because it's only in your head and then you have to take it into the physical world and that's where things drop off and things fall apart and you have to fix them.
I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. Heβs convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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