Thomas Langmann quotes

“Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.”
-- Thomas Langmann

Source : "Oscars Q&A: Thomas Langmann On The Creative Gamble Of Making 'The Artist'". Interview with Scott Timberg, deadline.com. February 4, 2012.

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“I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”
-- Thomas Langmann

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“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.”

“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”

“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.”

“I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.”

“Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.”

“Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.”

“I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.”

“Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.”

“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”