Help me remember a neat quote. :D

yzmotoxer807

yzmotoxer807

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A long time ago I had read an interesting quote by a director/writer that I cannot remember what or who. I know that the quote was something along the lines of "The only truly creative time is writing. Everything after that is just a compromise of the original vision." Does anyone know what the real quote is or who said it? I can't be the only one in the world who read/heard it.
 
Maybe it was you who said this in a dream. :) very nice idea!

Actually it makes sense but I will take it further. The clean sheet of paper has no boundaries. Once something is selected and placed on the page it starts to steer the creation toward a destination. Every additional item placed on the page further clarifies where this ship will find port.
 
George Lucas once said something similar to that, but he might have been quoting someone else. No amount of compromise can explain The Phantom Menace, though.
 
idk, I don't totally agree with this quote. I think the whole process is creative.

I look at a script as my still life setup and my camera as my canvas. My actors are my paint brushes and my lights are my paint. Not every painting has to be a photorealistic version of the still life...sometimes its abstract (if you like that sort of thing)
 
egproductions said:
I look at a script as my still life setup and my camera as my canvas. My actors are my paint brushes and my lights are my paint. Not every painting has to be a photorealistic version of the still life...sometimes its abstract (if you like that sort of thing)
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Nice metaphor! :)
 
I've found there are two kinds of filmmakers generally, those who have a clear and vivid picture in their head of exactly what they want to see on screen, and then painstakingly try to recreate it, and those who lay the groundwork for a space in which they can create and search for something they like. The pitfall of the first approach is that you can end up with something static and lifeless, and the pitfall of the second is that you may not find anything worthwhile.
 
Haha! this is a nice discussion guys but does anyone know of the real wording of this quote by chance? I would really like to use it in a school paper but without the actual wording or a speaker to cite there is no way to use it.
 
yzmotoxer807 said:
Haha! this is a nice discussion guys but does anyone know of the real wording of this quote by chance? I would really like to use it in a school paper but without the actual wording or a speaker to cite there is no way to use it.
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No, but you can quote us!
 
I think it was Hitchcock. From wikipedia--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock

Hitchcock once commented, "The writer and I plan out the entire script down to the smallest detail, and when we're finished all that's left to do is to shoot the film. Actually, it's only when one enters the studio that one enters the area of compromise. Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest." In an interview with Roger Ebert in 1969, Hitchcock further elaborates,
"Once the screenplay is finished, I'd just as soon not make the film at all...I have a strongly visual mind. I visualize a picture right down to the final cuts. I write all this out in the greatest detail in the script, and then I don't look at the script while I'm shooting. I know it off by heart, just as an orchestra conductor needs not look at the score...When you finish the script, the film is perfect. But in shooting it you lose perhaps 40 per cent of your original conception."[
 
AHA!!! Thank you batutta! I am forever greatful. I actually had heard the quote I am thinking of that you quoted in your response from the video of that very interview with Roger Ebert. We had watched the interview in one of my film classes from last semester. I never would have found that without your guys help. Thank you!
 
Here is my quote I have taped to my studio monitor:

"It didn't take me 25 minutes to do the job, it took me 25 years!"
 
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