Marguerite Moreau Quotes

24 quotations by Marguerite Moreau

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

It gives you a very solid feeling once you've swam out into the ocean. You step into another element. The surfing culture reflects tha.

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

I'm from Newport so yeah, I totally surf.

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

A lot of people against capital punishment have that argument: If we get to know them and we understand, we can be more compassionate.