Quotes by Patricia Riggen - Page 1

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.
Patricia Riggen /
Movie Star
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
Patricia Riggen /
Chile
Earthquakes
Mines
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
Patricia Riggen /
Release
Wide
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It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
Patricia Riggen /
Tricky
Cinematographer
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Steadily
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
Patricia Riggen /
Directing
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen /
Budget
Talented
Documentary
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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War Movies
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
Patricia Riggen /
Grateful
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
Patricia Riggen /
Columbia
Columbia University
New York City
Directing
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
Patricia Riggen /
Crossed
Occur
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
Patricia Riggen /
Subtitles
Good Movies World
Good Film
Spanish
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Handicap
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The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
Patricia Riggen /
Instinct
Intuition
Staying
Gut
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I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!
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Prove
Single
Tired
Myself I Am Day
After
Constantly
Idea
Every Single Day
Having
Hired
Single Day
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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
Patricia Riggen /
Good Job
Harry Potter
Mexican
Good Me Things
Directing
Harry
Potter
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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Latino
Mexican
Big Break
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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Easier
Harder
Latina
Stigma
Anymore
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When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.
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Graduation
Mexico
Thesis
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Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
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Formulas
Instinct
Work Out
Bad Movie
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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Belly
Breathe
Stones
Guard
Monster
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I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
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Film Industry
Mexico
Mexico City
Producer
Valid
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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Making Movies
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The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each other, that's a big miss. That is not true at all. At all. My women connect with each other instantly and help each other.
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Sabotage
Miss
Idea
Compete
Connect
Help
Instantly
Undermine
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Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
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Crew
Film Industry
Women Culture World
Every Single Thing
Fought
Intrinsic
Producer
Single Thing
Worldwide
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
Patricia Riggen /
Brilliant
Gray Hair
Editor
Listened
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