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.
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
There is no color line in art.
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
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