Jeremy Bolt quotes

“When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.”
-- Jeremy Bolt

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“Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.”
-- Jeremy Bolt

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“Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.”
-- Jeremy Bolt

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“A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.”
-- Jeremy Bolt

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“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan

“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

“Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.”

Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”

“Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.”

“I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.”

Source : "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think'". Interview with Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

“I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.”

“Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.”