Frederic Tcheng quotes

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.
-- Frederic Tcheng

#Opposites #Looks #Stories

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.
-- Frederic Tcheng

#Distance #Struggle #Trying

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.
-- Frederic Tcheng

#Character #Trying #Film

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.