Quotes by Jean-Marc Vallee - Page 1

I'm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Adrenaline makes me change.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Adrenaline
Hyde
Dr
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Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Adam
Bird
Scott
Sings
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I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Couple
Film
Looks
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I had written 'Cafe de Flore' with 'Stairway to Heaven' in mind.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Heaven
Cafe
Stairway
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I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Attached
Sharp
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I'm such a music geek, a music freak. I wake up in the morning, I press play.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Freak
Wake Up
Wake
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Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Easy
Film
Hours
Hour
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I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Desk
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As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Be Humble
Directors
Humble
Trying
Overdo
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There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Beautiful
Trying
Vanity
Filming
Rid
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Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Marathon
Tv Series
Directing
Feature
Feature Film
Schedule
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I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Bowie
David
Floyd
Pink
Pink Floyd
Sons
Zeppelin
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I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Episodes
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When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Just One
Solitude
Instrument
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Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Wings
Music Fly Me
Influences
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Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Comfort
Comfort Zone
France
Quebec
Surfing
Zone
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I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Cutting
Directors
Needs
Cuts
Overdo
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I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Beautiful
Monarchy
Past
Thinking
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It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Making Money
Tries
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I only made one film with a score, and I hate it. I hate the score of that film. It's not coming from me. I had nothing to do with it.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Score
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I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Quality
Character
Intention
Magic
Mystical
Song
Aiming
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I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Aim
Projects
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You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Quality
Acting
Emotion
Judgment
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I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Buyers
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Dallas
Less Is More
School
Zone
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I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and part of the job to go, 'Alright, let's talk about it!'
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Alright
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In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Careers
Directors
New Things
Trying
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'Sharp Objects' was scary, unknown territory for me. I wouldn't pick this kind of material to direct if you just gave me the book. Amy Adams was the force that drove me in.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Amy
Territory
Unknown
Sharp
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When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Embrace
Great Film
Scream
Life Good Great
Participate
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When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity and freedom where actors can move wherever they want to move.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Lights
Wherever
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When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Kids
Beautiful
Tape
Thinking
Lover
Mix
Tracks
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Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Filmmaking
Heavy
Lighting
Costume
Puts
Sets
So Many People
Trucks
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I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.
Jean-Marc Vallee / Film Director
Bob
Bowie
Doors
Dylan
Genesis
Hendrix
Progressive
Rock And Roll
Rolling
Stones
Teenage
Teenage Years
Bob Dylan
Floyd
Patty
Pink
Pink Floyd
Smith
The Doors
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